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CROSSING (#2443, 2108, 1666,
55))
Oil and enamel on canvas, 40x48 inches
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Jack Balas, 2023
WAYNE THIEBAUD DRAFTSMAN
India ink on paper, 30x22 inches
From
the MUSE/ MUSEUM series (click here for page)
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CAMP SIGHT (# 458, 477,
2439)
Oil and enamel on canvas, 24x32 inches
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I'D SAY WE'RE FUCKED (#2444)
India ink and acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches
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NEST (#2417)
Oil and enamel on canvas, 20x16 inches
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JUST WHAT IS IT THAT
MAKES TODAY'S HOMES
SO DIFFERENT, SO APPEALING?
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
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FROM OUR 1ST CAMPOUT (#2447)
India ink and acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches
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CALL FOR ENTRIES
(#2362--2436) (revi8sed 2023)
Ink, oil & enamel on canvas,
32x48 inches |
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SEED (#2452)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
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ZZZ |
RESCUE (#2449)
Oil & enamel on canvas, 32x48 inches
Also #
60
94
244
409
515
593
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WONDERLAND (#2445)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
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GGG |
A TASK AS OLD AS
THE WORLD (#2446)
Oil & enamel on canvas, 32x48 inches |
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MY BIRTHDAY (THIS YEAR HIT THE
MARK) (#2453)
India ink & acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches
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IT WAS MY FIRST TIME MODELING
(#2451)
India ink on paper, 30X22 inches
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THE WINDUP, THE ITCH (#2422)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
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INTERVIEW (#2441)
India ink, oil and acrylic on paper, 18x22 inches
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BOWL OF BASKETBALLS (After Matisse)
(#2434)
India ink and acrylic on paper, 18x22 inches
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DUKS SKUD DUSK DUST (#2455, 1061)
Oil & enamel on canvas, 24x20 inches
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GRADUATION (CLICK) (#2430)
India ink on paper, 30x22 inches
Click on image for text
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GRADUATION. I go every year. Join the
trickle of people, then a river streaming into the big bowl of
the football stadium at sunset, sit up in the stands surrounded
by Moms and Dads and sisters and bros, grandparents, neighbors-you
can feel their happiness, their joy. We listen to the speeches,
watch the ceremony, hear the kids shout as they are awarded their
degrees, the fireworks, and then the lights come on and the smoke
clears and everyone immediately is in search of Their Kid, somewhere
down on the field. They meet up on the ramps, in the halls, out
on the quad. This is the best part, this is why I go. To see
how happy these families are, proud, first generation grads especially,
taking big group photos. The very first time I went there was
a family of 14 people all lined up waiting for someone to come
along and take their picture. That someone was me. Back then
I didn't know how to work a cellphone camera, so I've prayed
ever since that I didn't screw it up. They worked so hard. I
think I go back every year looking for them. Maybe I will find
them again. Or someone like them. YOU. This time I'm ready. Waiting.
OK smile now. CLICK.
(Today is Fri. May 12, 2023)
xxx
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NEXT UP (#2424)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR (#2429)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
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A NEW SON DREAMING ON
THE PLAIN (#2442)
Oil and enamel on canvas, 32x24 inches)
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STRIPED (TIGER) (#2406)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
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b
Jack Balas, 2023;
BALM (AND IT IS VERY WARM) (#2435)
India ink on paper, 22 x 18 inches
Click on image for text
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THE ACT OF GOD (#2448,
337); Oil & enamel on canvas, 32x48 inches
Click on image for text
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THE ACT OF GOD
Al walked into our tent naked one night
at scout camp, said "HEY, SHINE YOUR FLASHLIGHT ON MY DICK!
I'VE GOT A HARD-ON!" I was just out of sixth grade, Al the
seventh, other guys the eighth. I'd never seen boys naked before
but here the lifeguards were swimming bare-ass, and now this.
He went off into another tent but those guys wouldn't let me
in. For days I tried shining a flashlight on my dick, but nothing
ever happened. |
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LOFT (#2413)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
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THE BRIEF HISTORY OF NATURE (#2411)
Oil and enamel on canvas diptych, 28x44 inches overall
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ISSUES & COMMENTARY (#2425)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
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WE FILL EACH PAGE (#2426)
Oil and enamel on canvas, 20x16 inches
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BULL ON THE ROOF (#2409)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
Click on image for text
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ANTITHESIS (THE NEW ASSISTANT)
(#2421)
India ink on paper, 30x22 inches
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REGINALD MARSH IS
DRAWING ME (#2412)
(MUSE/ MUSEUM SERIES)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
Click on image for text
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So
this guy Reginald Marsh is drawing me at Coney Island today while
I flex and these people are gathered around to watch and somebody
just took a photo and this is a drawing of the photo in a catalog
of Marsh's paintings and drawings and 73 years after his drawing
and theory doesn't get better than this. I SHOULD KNOW. I WAS
THERE. TRUST ME. |
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IT'S MIDNIGHT AND I'M
DRIVING A MOUSE OUT OF TOWN (#2416);
India ink & acrylic on paper, 30x22 inches
Click on image for text
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IT'S MIDNIGHT AND I'M DRIVING
A MOUSE
OUT OF TOWN
(a True Story...)
It's midnight and I'm driving
a mouse out of town. I'd been hunting it in the house for days,
ever since it poked its nose out from behind a pile of books,
and tonight it's midnight and I'm reading and I hear scritch
scratch coming from under the kitchen sink. Aha! I open the door
and there it is in the garbage bag, trying to climb up the paper
walls but I just fold it over and now the bag is on the front
seat and I pick it up a few times and shake it to keep the little
guy quiet.
I've read that if you want to let a mouse go, you have to take
it at least two miles away or else it will find its way back,
so here we are on County 10 headed east, and when I get to a
good spot I turn the car around and get out with the bag and
stand in the headlights, scenes going through my head of movies
where the hostage is forced to stand in the lights before his
demise, but I simply open the bag and the mouse high-tails it
into the nearest ditch.
On my drive home I ponder how insane it all seems- to own a car
and pay for insurance and maintenance and now gas to drive a
mouse two miles out, but as the lights of town approach and vie
for the warm coziness of my front seat on this otherwise cold
October night, I consider too the sight of some particular stars
rising huge and glorious over the horizon, Orion the Hunter,
the giant with arm raised, poised to catch- or maybe poised to
let go.
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SIX PACK, MIAMI (#2396)
India ink on paper, 30x22 inches
Click on image for textBBB
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GOOD FRIDAY, HONOLULU (#2419)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
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GANG SHOWERS (#2391)
India ink on paper, 30x22 inches
Click on image for text
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IN TODAY'S NEWS (#2410)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
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ON CUE (PROW) (PROWL) (#2415)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
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WHITEOUT (#2396) (In progress)
India ink on paper, 30x22 inches
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KUHIO (#2398)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
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LOOK OUT (#2400)
India ink on paper, 30x22 inches
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PROLOGUE (#2393)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
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THE NEW WORLD (#2401)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
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WE DO NOT GIVE UP (#2397)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
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DOG DAY (#2404)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
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POSTER BOY (#2394)
India ink on paper, 30x22 inches
Click on image for text
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THIS IS NOT MY DOG (#2399)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
Click on image for text
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THE GULF STREAM (#2404)
India ink & acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches
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PROLOGUE (#2393)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
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NO COMMENT (#2405)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
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Colorado
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LEGION (#2387)
India ink on paper, 30x22 inches
Click on image for text
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SAYING YES (#2392)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
Click on image for text
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Fountain, Colorado
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EMPIRE OF COURSE (#2387)
India ink on paper, 30x22 inches
Click on image for text
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CHOIR (CHAIR) (#2382)
India ink on paper, 20x15 inches
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Colorado
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JB @ Paris Photo
Magazine intervention 2023 -- ArtForum 2012
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Tucson, AZ
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Tucson, AZ
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THE BRONZE ELK (#2388)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
Click on image for text
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Tucson, AZ
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Tucson, AZ
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OFFSTAGE THE NARRATOR'S VOICE
RISES:
THE MOMENT OF TRUTH (#2385)
India ink, acrylic & gouache on paper, 22x30 inches
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JB @ Petzel (#2383)
Magazine drawing -- ArtForum November 2022
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A SUDDEN GUST OF SNOW AT WAIKIKI
(FOR HOKUSAI) (#2369);
India ink & acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches
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Waikiki
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SOME GUY'S DECALS (#2367);
India ink & acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches
Click on
image for text
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Some guy
down the street has covered his car windows with decals-- for
cities, countries, national parks, ski areas, brewpubs, whatever.
I had a suitcase just like it growing up-- states I'd been to,
or wanted to see, places, a real steamer trunk like from the
movies. My reflection in the glass today made me think of it
differently, though. I haven't see it in years.
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HONEY (TRUCK) (#2378)
India ink & acrylic on paper, 15x20 inches
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MOBY DICK 2 (#2376)
India ink & acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches
Click on image for text
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PERPETUAL PIE (#2380)
India ink on paper, 15x20 inches
Click on image for text
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THIS CLOUD (#2381)
India ink and acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches
Click on image for text
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Colorado
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MY CROSSING GUARD (#2368);
India ink & acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches
Click on
image for text
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TEAM PHOTO 1 (#2375);
India ink & acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches
Click on image for text
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Hawaii State Art Museum,
Honolulu
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ACE WAS JOGGING (#2373);
India ink on paper, 30x22 inches
Click on image for text
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OUT OF HAND (#2366);
India ink & acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches
Click on image
for text |
Ventura, CA |
FIRST DAY BACK (#2357);
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
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CENOTAPH (UNTIL THE NEXT
GODDAMN TIME) (#2370);
India ink on paper, 30x22 inches
CLICK ON IMAGE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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IT WORKS BOTH WAYS (#2359);
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
Click on image for text
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Tucson, AZ
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CALL FOR ENTRIES (#2362--2436)
(revised 2023)
Ink, oil & enamel on canvas, 32x48 inches
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Farnsworth Museum
Rockland, Maine |
YOU WERE MY FIRST (#2379)
India ink on paper, 15x20 inches
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TODAY'S CHOICE: RED STRIPES
OR U.S. MARINE AT WAIKIKI (#2299) India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
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SO HONORED (#2300)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches |
MUSEUM PIECE (#2276)
India ink on paper, 30x22 inches
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Text
on right:
I am headed to Maine
day after tomorrow at the height of autumn, to be in a show.
Bates College is flying me out and putting me up and it's not
the first time either- in Maine, Iowa, Texas, more. The first
time I was on my own, sleeping in my car, climbing Katahdin,
even met Andrew Wyeth.
If you told me way back then I'd be doing this all today I'da
said Huh? You nuts? Where do I sign up? Some people say you need
a roadmap, but Joseph Campbell said it best: Follow your bliss.
This dog followed me into this painting and at first I thought
of a title "A Dog's Life," until I looked up the meaning.
No Way. So much better is the Marine I met on the beach in Honolulu.
He'd just spent four months at sea and now was on shore leave.
He kept looking around and shaking his head, smiling and saying
to himself "Livin' the life. Livin' the life." If he
ever needs a dog I've got one in mind.
Today is (was) October
25 & 26, 2022.
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HEADED TO MAINE (#2365)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
Click on image for text
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NAVIGATION (#2360)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
Click on image for text
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Tennis Court
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ON APPROACH (#2361--2437)
(revised 2023)
Oil, enamel & ink on canvas, 44x60 inches
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THIS IS MY DAY JOB? (#2296)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
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BIRTHDAY BOY (#2289)
India ink and oil on paper, 22x30 inches
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THE JUMPING CASTLE (#2295)
India ink and oil on paper, 22x30 inches
Click on image for text
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Berthoud, Colorado
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ONE WAY OR ANOTHER (#2290)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
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Colorado
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THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT
STORIES (#2297)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
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Monday was laundry
day next door to where I lived in college: sheets and towels
and whatnot put out like clockwork, flapping in the breeze from
an Andrew Wyeth painting in the side yard of an Edward Hopper
house. That view from my window was the best watercolor I ever
did in those days. On the other side was a bunch of college kids
like me, and I could look down into their yard too. They liked
to sit out, but they didn't seem to do much laundry ever.
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LAUNDRY DAY (#2287)
India ink and oil on paper, 22x30 inches.
Click on image for text
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CENOTAPH (UNTIL THE NEXT
GODDAMN TIME)
(#2370); India ink on paper, 30x22 inches
CLICK ON IMAGE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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THESE ARE THE DAYS (#2279)
India ink and oil on paper, 30x22 inches
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CHRIS BURDEN: WHAT MY
DAD GAVE ME (#2298)
India ink and oil on paper, 30x22 inches
FROM
THE MUSE / MUSEUM SERIES (click here for page)
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START (#2285)
India ink and oil on paper, 30x22 inches
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SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
(#2284)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
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ON NO DAY DOES THE PIER DISAPPOINT
(#2358);
India ink & acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches |
Tucson, AZ
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OUR VISIT TO TOLEDO (i.e.
FRANCISCO) (#2261)
India ink, gouache & acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches
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TALISMAN (TELL THE WORLD) (#2275)
India ink, gouache & acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches
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Untitled (Pie) (#2264)
India ink & gouache on paper, 10x12 inches
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AMAZING (#2260)
India ink, gouache & watercolor on paper, 19x15 inches
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WE HOLD THE RIVER (#2258)
India ink, gouache & acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches
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Tucson, AZ
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HUCK AND JIM SEZ: WE READ ABOUT
A RIVER,
AND WE HEARD ABOUT A RAFT; (#2257)
India ink, gouache & acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches
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WE BUILD THIS (#2249)
India ink, watercolor & acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches
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AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN
SEE (#2256)
India ink, watercolor, gouache & acrylic on paper, 22x30
inches
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America
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POETS WILL BE NAMED (#2270)
oil and enamel on canvas,
46x42 inches |
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SHALL
(#2273--464)
oil and enamel on canvas,
40x48 inches |
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Untitled (MAST) (#2263)
India ink on paper, 10x12 inches
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Washington D.C.
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PINK AND BROWN (#2242)
India ink, watercolor & gouache on paper, 30x22 inches
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Untitled (#2266)
India ink on paper, 12x9 inches
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EDWARD HOPPER: HOUSE
BY THE RAILROAD (#2271)
India ink & gouache on paper, 30x23 inches
from the series MUSE/ MUSEUM
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IN THE SISTINE... (#2253)
India ink, watercolor, gouache & acrylic on paper, 22x30
inches
Click on image for text
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Tucson, AZ
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BEYOND THE PAIL (#2238)
India ink & acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches
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STRINGER (#2259)
India ink & acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches
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Farnsworth Art Museum,
Rockland, Maine
Self-portrait with Andrew Wyeth's
"Portrait of Young Swede"
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THE NEW COLOSSUS, STILL (#2248)
India ink, watercolor & gouache on paper, 30x22 inches
Click on image for text
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AMAZING (#2260)
India ink, gouache & watercolor on paper, 19x15 inches
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MORNING SURF (#2244)
India ink, watercolor & acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches
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WRITE OF SPRING (#2240)
India ink & gouache on paper, 22x30 inches
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DUST (#2227)
India ink, watercolor & acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches
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Berthoud, Colorado
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GUSHER (#2236)
India ink, watercolor & acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches
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SEND FOR NO INFORMATION
(#2231)
India ink, watercolor & acrylic on paper, 30x22 inches
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IT'S ALL CONNECTED (#2232)
India ink, watercolor & acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches
Click
on image for text
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SOME DAYS (#2269);
oil and enamel on canvas, 46x42 inches
Text:
Some days I just want to paint but I don't know what. So I just
start. Somedays it can be a sky. Today it's the ocean. Some days
I add something, then I can figure it out. I'm glad there's a
lot of some days. |
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HOT HOUSE (#2221)
India ink, watercolor & acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches
Click on image for text
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Tucson, AZ
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WHEN SO LATE BECOMES
SO EARLY (#2241)
India ink & acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches
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Untitled (#2267)
India ink on paper, 11.5 x 9 inches
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HORSE POWER (A Better Metaphor
Could Not Be Had) (#2251)
India ink, watercolor, gouache & acrylic on paper, 22x30
inches
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ALPHA (#2252)
India ink & acrylic on paper, 30x22 inches
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MOON SHOT (#2228)
India ink, watercolor & acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches
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America
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AND WITH AN ESSAY BY SOMEBODY
ON SOMETHING (#2219); India ink & acrylic on paper, 30x22
inches
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WALLPAPER FOR BOYS (#2234)
India ink & acrylic on paper, 22X30 inches
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MOUNTAIN TIME (#2239)
India ink, watercolor & gouache on paper, 30x22 inches
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MORNING SURF (#2244)
India ink, watercolor & acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches
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FRIDAY, 10 P.M. (#2224)
India ink, & acrylic on paper, 30x22 inches
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b
WAIT ROOM (#2215)
India ink on paper, 22x30 inches
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Weightroom
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THE PRAYER (#2230)
India ink & watercolor on paper, 30x22 inches
Click on image
for text
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OUR NEW FISHING BUDDY (#2229)
India ink, gouache & acrylic on paper, 30x22 inches
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ON THE ROAD (#2218)
India ink, gouache & acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches
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STILL LIFE WITH APPLES AND MEXICAN
TIN
CHICKEN (#2214)
India inK on paper, 19x15 inches
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HOOK (#2247)
India ink, gouache & acrylic on paper, 22x30 inches
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NIGHT GAME (#2220)
India ink, gouache & acrylic on paper, 30x22 inches
Click on image
for text
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ArtForum
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zzz
AND WITH AN
ESSAY BY SOMEBODY ON SOMETHING (#2219); India ink & acrylic
on paper, 30x22 inches
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BLUE AND YELLOW (For Ukraine)
(#2254)
India ink & acrylic on paper, 30x22 inches
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FLAG (#2216)
India ink, gouache & acrylic on paper, 22X30 inches
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AND TO WRITE A BOOK ABOUT IT
(A TRUE STORY) (#2235)
India ink & acrylic on paper, 30x22 inches
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I WANT TO TELL YOU A STORY (#2226)
India ink on paper, 30x22 inches
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zzz
BETA (#2255)
India ink & acrylic on paper, 30x22 inches
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LANDSCAPE WITH TREE AND BASKETBALLS
(#2222)
India ink, gouache & acrylic on paper, 22X30 inches
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