Congdon’s paintings have this capacity to open and close a sense of the liturgical thunder of life. [...] These paintings, as we are talking about painting, are also ‘Lombards’ because they have the splendor of these ancient jewels. They are paintings in the face of whose beauty at a certain point, it is better to stop talking and stay there and learn, in that secret, very taut, splendid and I would say unexpected language, about an enormous treasure of our era, the late work of William Congdon.
