Inspired by the New England’s Indian summer these paintings inhabit a movement unique to van Gool, one she summons up through her dramatic charge of color and that drives these emotional works, as the dancers she creates in effect lose themselves, consumed by the hot, dry matter of the world, like fallen, brittle leaves about to burst into flame. A solitary personage or a group are always the presumed focus of the composition. the women’s gowns break down into fields of color, maddening reds and oranges, so that what the viewer beheld at first seems to have sparked into an uncertain environment, more abstract and unknown, but more passionate as well.