Blooming Swamp Grass,
Oil on board, 1994, 30x40", The pale grass stalks and fronds appear rosy in the evening light |
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Missy,
1991, a rare horse portrait, oil on canvas,16x20" with a painted frame liner |
| Trunk and Sapling,1992, (below left) oil on canvas, 60x36" this is one of a series of dead tree paintings, in the tradition of 18th century painters who used the dead tree as a symbol of America's ancient history (a natural history) much as European art used columns and ruins as symbols of ancient history. Oaks,1991, oil on canvas, 36x24", same concept - this painting appeared on teh cover of the Habersham Review, literary publication. |
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The Four Seasons in Georgia,
1987-1989 44x48" , oil on canvas, cylcle: winter, spring, summer, fall - shown as part of my MFA project, then sold to Tribune Corp/Chicago Cubs owners - these paintings embody the strong 3-d quality of my work emphasized by the long empty foreground and vista into deep background
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