Word: tideway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the space of the trees in the foreground seems to embrace the space of the bay." The starting point for The Weir and the Island, now owned by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, was the view Kienbusch got of a weir made of burnt spruce, set in a tideway. "The spruce boughs were rust-colored," he recalls. "They stood up out of the water like wild orange branches in a blue field. The three bars represent low tide, and then the island. It's kind of a wild picture...