Oil on canvas, signed lower right, retains dealer tag to verso, presented in a stained oak floater frame.

Frame dimensions 67.75 x 49.75 in.

From the collection of Nancy & Terry Grier, Wilmington, North Carolina

Woodward Payne has been representing the natural world through painting and photography, whose early work was a direct result of "my lifelong interest in flying and viewing the unique elegance of the earth from above."

His education includes a B.A. Arizona State University, M.A. Indiana University, as well as study at both Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan and the Art Students League, New York. Woodward's awards include the Marin Arts Council Artist Grant Program funded by the Leonard and Beryl Buck Trust, and the National Air and Space Museum, First Prize, Earth View Competition, Smithsonian.

One small patch with associated retouch at far right; some wear to frame.