Two catalogs of Charles Richie exhibitions came in the mail this week:  Suburban Journals: the Sketchbooks, Drawings, and Prints of Charles Ritchie, and Charles Ritchie, The Interior Landscape.
 Above is "Pegasus", a mezzotint, one of Ritchie's least complex images. Below is one of his most complex, a drawing, "Kitchen Window with Reflections." Both were taken from www.charlesritchie.com. 

I love the melting darks and the sharp surprise of the whites,  the darks which sometimes seem to have a blue or purple cast.  When I look at his work, I think about what constitutes a picture, of where the image ends.  Both of these seem to end abruptly, but not unsatisfactorily.