That was posed to me yesterday after a visit to the Peabody-Essex Museum in Salem, MA to see “Painting Summer in New England.” The question referred to prints in my home, not any art I’ve produced. Today I walked around the house and discovered my taste in art is dark. Not in a dark-evil sense, but just… dark. Dusk, evening or indoor images dominate and are typified by Edward Hopper’s “New York Movie” and Childe Hassam’s “Rainy Day, Boston.”

There are a few exceptions to the “dark” theme including Hopper’s brighter “Rooms by the Sea,” “Flags on the Waldorf” by Childe Hassam and “In the Luxembourg Gardens” by John Singer Sargent.

At the show yesterday, I gravitated to Winslow Homer’s “The Artist’s Studio in an Afternoon Fog.” It was a fixating image. My friend agreed. It fits perfectly in the theme of most of the prints I have. They were purchased a few years ago when it was a darker time. Now I can’t really see myself going for this, now hugely popular in Great Britain, but this might work…