Provenance Acquired by American Legacy Fine Arts by a private collector in Phoenix, Arizona.
Gallery Description
Painted in the late 1980s, Evening Light on Cajon Boulevard captures a quiet, now-vanished stretch of San Bernardino where open land once met the glow of the setting sun. John Budicin was drawn repeatedly to this location for its expansive views and luminous evening atmosphere, here rendered with a sensitive, painterly touch.
A soft gradient of warm peach and lavender sky settles behind silhouetted trees and modest structures, while the foreground field rests in cool, muted greens. Budicin’s restrained brushwork and subtle shifts in tone evoke the stillness of dusk, as daylight gently yields to night. The composition is both intimate and expansive—rooted in a specific place, yet expressive of a universal moment of transition.
Today, the site has given way to modern development, lending the painting an added sense of poignancy. It stands as a quiet tribute to a fleeting landscape, preserved through the artist’s eye and memory.
