Tom Chimes Waterfall, 1980 Oil on canvas 90 x 114 inches Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The panel portraits ended around 1978, when traumatic events in Chimes’s personal life overtook him, including illness and a divorce from his wife Dawn DeWeese. This large-scale painting, indebted to the Hudson River School, and the atmospheric effects of Turner’s paintings that Chimes encountered for the first time on a trip to London in 1980, is a precursor to the series of white paintings that followed. The dark panel portraits thus gave way to a mist-covered waterfall enveloped in myriad color droplets and replete with an optimistic arcing rainbow.