..."Skies are almost anything but blue. Clouds are pink, sometimes yellow. His painted remembrances of a cultivated world with a half-wild side are aglow with colors nature does not know..." Diane Heilenman - art critic emeritus of the Louisville Courier Journal Panicale is the name of the small village in the heart of olive growing territory in
Umbria Italy where Hertz lived and painted before returning to the USA. | 
