Shown in 1955 at the second Painters Eleven group exhibition, Day Neon offers an exuberant display of linear drawing with the painter’s brush. Town’s method of allowing forms to emerge through drawing is similar to the Surrealist automatism practised by the Automatistes in Montreal in the 1940s, and by New York painters Arshile Gorky (1904–1948), Jackson Pollock (1912–1956), and Willem de Kooning (1904–1997). As well, the colliding diagonals and sense of continuous movement recall the visual language of the action comics featuring Captain Marvel and Minute-Man that Town loved during boyhood.