b'HTT P://WWW .JANE TRUTT ENBERG.COM/TKTKTKTKTKTKTK gures at the center of General Sherman were roughly based on the shameless picnickers in Manets Le djeuner sur lherbe, 1863; but it was years before I noticed the visual parallel between these rudimentary gures, blended against the paved Park walkway, and the integrated image at the center of the same workwhere she projected one of her videos of birds bathing onto a paint-ed puddle. As a connoisseur of prints, Janet reminded me that Manet based his gures on a group of seated river gods from an early 16th-century engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi, after a lost drawing by Raphael. For her, Raphaels gracefully interlinked gures are among the most SCANTHISQRCODEORVISIT:perfect graphic compositions in all of art. Transposed from their original Renaissance landscape these same nude gures are one of numerous leitmotifs in Janets Central Park paintings, along with images of some of her favorite real-life Sheep Meadow characters, appearing repeatedly from one work to the next, sometimes more obvious, sometimes less. No matter how many times I look at her paintings, I always notice something that I had previously overlooked, like one of these leitmotifs. And whenever I try to describe in words what I am looking at, the attempt forces me to see it in ways I never expected. Once I visited Janets studio when it was crowded with vases full of blossoming pear tree branch-es that she was portraying all across the foreground of General Sherman as nishing touches, in ABOVEE=mc 2as photographed in 2019, with an early version of its video frame (so-called tin frame).OPPOSITEDetail of E=mc 2. 4849'