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American city "the Inferno without the fire". Ault painted what he saw around him, simplifying detail slightly into flat shapes and planes, and portraying the underlying geometric patterns of structures. In his wife's words, painting for him was a means of "creating order out of chaos." An analytical painter and ultimately a realist, Ault is noted for his realistic portrayal of light—especially moonlight and lamplight—for he often painted nighttime scenes. Of his later paintings, such as
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during this time, but had difficulty selling them. In 1948, Ault was discovered dead five days after drowning in the
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with Louise Jonas, who would become his second wife, and tried to put his difficulties in the past. In
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The setting is the same in each case—a solitary streetlight, the same bend in the road, the same collection of barns and sheds—but seen from different vantage points. In them, Ault has summoned up the poetry of darkness in an unforgettable way—the implacable solitude and strangeness that night
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