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| Unframed canvas of a typical prairie sky motif, 1974 |
As spring turned to summer, back in 1969, the impressions of the prairies, for this new European immigrant family in their tiny little house, became quite a fascination. Long before the term 'land of living skies' was coined, the sky in Fritz's painting became a distinctive attraction of his many landscapes. The living colors and the interplay of cloud and sun, along with the endless view in many settings, made it quite impossible for him to go anywhere without his canvas and paints. Something he never really did anyway, but in Europe it wasn't so easy to just 'stop and set-up to paint' anywhere.
