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QUICK TOUR: MULTI-YEAR SURVEY OF PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS

Here is a sampling of paintings and drawings, going back across all the years of working to the 1990's. Consider it a quick tour if you've never seen the work before.
You will also find these images on the yearly painting pages or the drawing series pages, all of which are very extensive.

 

 

 

Jack Balas, 2024; IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES,
IT WAS THE WORST OF TIMES (#2588)

 

Jack Balas, 2024; AN OWL CALLING WHO? WHO? (#2557)

  

Jack Balas, 2024; WE'VE COME TO READ YOUR BOOKS (#2566)

 

THE BIGGER PICTURE (#2456.1535)

 

THIS WAY (#2407)

 

LEGION (#2387)

 

 

HOME AT LAST (KEY) (#2523, 2457.1025.897x)

 

   

#2261 OUR VISIT TO TOLEDO (i.e. FRANCISCO)

 

GOOD FRIDAY, HONOLULU (#2419)

 


CALL FOR ENTRIES (#2362--2436) (revi8sed 2023)
Ink, oil & enamel on canvas, 32x48 inches

 

 

#2260 AMAZING

 

#2249 WE BUILD THIS

 

# 2412 REGINALD MARSH IS DRAWING ME
(MUSE/ MUSEUM SERIES)

#2365 HEADED TO MAINE

#2241 WHEN SO LATE BECOMES SO EARLY

 

#2270 POETS WILL BE NAMED

 

#2271 EDWARD HOPPER: HOUSE BY THE RAILROAD

#2263 Untitled (MAST)

  

HOT HOUSE (#2221)

  

#2094 Friday at 5

  

#2063 Life on the Mississippi  (BACKFLIP)

 

#2125 It's All Been a Self-Portrait

 

Buddy # 2141 (wolf)

 

#2123 Off To College

 



#2113 Right and Left (or, Left And Right)

 

 

#2084 I Never Knew I Was Lost (Until I Was Found)

 

#2109 IN(ter)DEPENDENCE DAY (In Question July 4, 2021)

 

 

PLOT TWIST (# X-1027-2014)

 

#2158 We Are, After All, Just Ink Drawn on Paper;

#2242 PINK AND BROWN

 

PALACE (#1877)

 

CACTUS FLOWERS (#1892)

GO TO FULL YEAR-BY-YEAR
PAINTING PAGES
 From the COMPANY Series (2020-21) . . .    

 

1895   Guy'd

 

1894   Black Yard

  

1955   Promises, Promises

  

1914 Harbinger (Igloo)

 

 

   2004 Every Word, Every Letter (2)

   2005 Siempre

 

1969 Poets Will Be Named

 

 

1974 Study, Eakins Swimming Hole

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2010 I'm Possible

   

 

GO TO FULL YEAR-BY-YEAR
PAINTING PAGES

 

 Around 2020 . . .

 

LA PARED, NOGALES

 

BACK OF THE YARDS
(SANDBURG'S BOY)

 

LA FRONTERA (OR IS IT?)

  

LA LUCHA (THE FIGHT)

THE OBERDICK HOUSE

  

LANDING

 

IOWA: THE AFFECTIONS OF HER PEOPLE,
LIKE THE RIVERS OF HER BORDERS,
FLOW TO AN INSEPARABLE UNION

 

 

CROSSING BY MOONLIGHT

 

MAN IN MOON, MOON IN MAN
(VAULT)

 

REACH 1 (PIER)

THE DRAWING ROOM
New Drawings and Collage

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (MUSE/ MUSEUM SERIES)

  

GRANT WOOD SEZ TO WORLD: COME OUT FIGHTING

 

BACK THERE

 

 

CHECKERED PASSED (TIED)


FIRST DRAFT

  

THE WALL , NOGALES
(LA PARED)

  

HIGHROAD

 

JOIN

 

MOM

 

THE FROST RAILING (Study)

 

D-ICE
(DOUBLE SELF-PORTRAIT)

 

THIS MUST BE AMERICA

  

LIGHTS OUT

 

FRONTISPIECE
(CARVE YOUR INTITIALS...)

 

TREEHOUSE

POOL  (HONOLULU)

 

CROWN

  

SUMMER READING
(study)

 

CHRISTINA'S WORLD
(THE DAY I MET ANDREW WYETH)

SHIP OF COOLS

 

EL MUNDO NUEVO

DO THE MATH

 

SHORE

SCENIC ROUTE


DEPTH

  Around 2015 . . .   GO TO FULL YEAR-BY-YEAR
PAINTING PAGES

ZEITGEIST

 

WE HAVE ALL
WAXED AND WANED

 

FACE IT, MADAM DIRECTOR

 

HITCH

GETTY, GET READY

   

SUBTITLE

 

OUR TOWN
(THE OLD COLONIAL)

THIS TIME AROUND

 

BRUCE NAUMAN: SIXPACT (MUSE / MUSEUM)

ANTINOUS ET HADRIAN, EMPEROR
(MUSE / MUSEUM)

 

ON THE GROUND (MUSE / MUSEUM)

DRAWING FROM TATTOO DETOUR 10

SPUNK & WACK,
EMERGING CURATORS

CERTIFICATE OF HAPPINESS

THE WRITING ON THE WALL

  

DRAWING FROM TATTOO DETOUR 9
DENNIS THE MENACE IN HONOLULU

  

DRAWING FROM TATTOO DETOUR 9
DENNIS THE MENACE IN HONOLULU

  

DRAWING FROM TATTOO DETOUR 7

CHAPBOOK

  

MORE

YOUR TURN

SWITCH

WINNER (THAT WORD)

FLAT

THE ENDURING THEMES

I WANT TO LIVE... HERE !

THE MYSTERIOUSLY ABANDONED NEW MAN

  

CROWN HALL

  

DRAWING FROM TATTOO DETOUR 7

 

THRESHOLD

GRANT WOOD AMERICAN GOTHIC
(MUSE / MUSEUM)

 

JULES BRETON:SONG OF THE LARK
(MUSE / MUSEUM)

IN THE FOREST PRESERVES

  Around 2010 . . .   GO TO FULL YEAR-BY-YEAR
PAINTING PAGES

SING

THE DISCOVERY OF HONOLULU

BANK SHOT

  

LAZY AFTERNOON

 

NOW AND THEN

  

DAY JOB FOR THE NIGHT SKY

 

SAP

 
ED RUSCHA (B)USTED (GL)ASS
(MUSE / MUSEUM)

PROMISES PROMISES

WAITING FOR INSTRUCTIONS

DRAWING FROM TATTOO DETOUR 6

 

DRAWING FROM TATTOO DETOUR 6

VAST, YET STILL

BANK

BASE

 

DRAWING FROM TATTOO DETOUR 4

 

DRAWING FROM TATTOO DETOUR 5

 

DRAWING FROM TATTOO DETOUR 4

 

THE MODEL SON

LICHTENSTEIN GIRLS
(MUSE / MUSEUM )

 

MILK & COOKIES

TIME TO GO

DONALD JUDD (MUSE / MUSEUM)

 

EDWARD HOPPER IN PARIS
 Around 2005--2001 . . .   GO TO FULL YEAR-BY-YEAR
PAINTING PAGES


SIX PACK

REMBRANDT
MUSE / MUSEUM

SCRIPT

 

DRAWING FROM TATTOO DETOUR 1

 

MODERN PHAT

DRAWING FROM TATTOO DETOUR 3

MAN GUESSING

MILKY WAY

LONG BEEN SUSPECTED 

THE TRUE CROSS

FROM 2005 CACTUSHEADS

 

FROM 2005 CACTUSHEADS

FRA ANGELICO'S CELL

 

STAND

SHIRTS AND SKINS

 

A TASK AS OLD AS THE WORLD

  

SWEAT

 

TWIN

 

MOBY DICK

 

PARADISE 

Untitled (Niagara) (#25) 

 2001 and earlier...   GO TO FULL YEAR-BY-YEAR
PAINTING PAGES

 
 

THE PERIPHERY OF NEVER

   

THE FALL OF SYNONYM

UNTITLED COLLAGE
from DRAWINGS page

 

CAST OFF THE LIFEBOATS

  

HOLY CARD

 

SPANISH MOSS:
AN EFFIGY OF THE SOUTH

 

ROWING NOT DRIFTING

REPORTS OF A SLIDE

ENVELOPE

WESWARD, HO! (ENCYCLOPEDIA)



DEAD RECKONING (NAVIGATION)

 

THE SINK, ROME

BOATS

SHALLOW HOME

HARBINGER

 

RETABLO

TODAY I DROVE ALONG THE RIO GRANDE

REGRET (MOON)

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