The Brooklyn Rail has reviewed Rivers From 30,000 Feet at Sebastian Gladstone in New York, an exhibition presenting the abstract 'Summer' or 'River' series that Herman Cherry painted in the Hamptons in the summer of 1970. The show, running 9 September to 24 October 2026, marks the first time the body of work has been on view in fifty-five years. Cherry, born in 1909 and deceased in 1992, reimagined the world's rivers as overflowing swathes of dusky periwinkle, ripe berry red and meadowy green. Inspired by landforms seen from an aerial perspective, he used colours drawn from the surrounding landscape and sunsets. Ten watercolours, his only known use of the medium, line the gallery's entryway, their paper edges jagged where they were torn from their original pad. The review traces Cherry's uneven career: a first solo exhibition at Weyhe Gallery in 1947 featuring three-dimensional works that Life magazine called 'sculptured doodles', a solo painting show at Stable Gallery in 1955, and then decades without representation as his work diverged from the dominant styles of Minimalism, Pop and Land art. He supported himself through various jobs, including teaching posts that had him commuting by air and gave rise to this series. For decades his wife Regina Kremer stored and preserved the work. The review notes how Cherry's colours shimmer as they flow into one another and sink into the page, each colour bordered by blank paper before another echoes its shape, incorporating the page into the composition. The gallery observes that his use of negative space recalls Japanese art, and that the paintings function, like Japanese screens described as 'surrogates for the land', as surrogates melding rivers, lakes, trees and sky into abstract form.