William Christenberry’s painting called Tenant House (1996) is now displaying in his solo exhibition --“ Laying-by Time” in MICA’s Decker Gallery in the Fox Building. This work is 35 3/4"x51 1/4" and painted by oil stick on plywood. A big tenant house almost occupides the whole space of the painting. The whole rectangle plywood was painted with thin as well as various mixed and impure colors. The roof is generally painted dark black but with some other colours, such as carmin, dark green and light yellow, revealed faintly. Also, there are several light grey lines on the different areas of the roof. The artist painted the most body areas of the house with light and grayish yellow as well as mainly horizontal strokes. One rectangle black mixed
