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QUICK TOUR: 160 PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS

Here is a sampling of about 160 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.

 

 

 


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

 

#2260 AMAZING

#2249 WE BUILD THIS

 

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

 

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

#2365 HEADED TO MAINE

#2241 WHEN SO LATE BECOMES SO EARLY

 

#2242 PINK AND BROWN

 

#2270 POETS WILL BE NAMED

#2271 EDWARD HOPPER: HOUSE BY THE RAILROAD

#2263 Untitled (MAST)

 

HOT HOUSE (#2221)

 

#2125 It's All Been a Self-Portrait

 

Buddy # 2141 (wolf)

 

#2123 Off To College

  

#2094 Friday at 5

 



#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)

 

 

#2063 Life on the Mississippi  (BACKFLIP)

 

 

PLOT TWIST (# X-1027-2014)

 

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

 

CACTUS FLOWERS (#1892)

 

PALACE (#1877)

 From the COMPANY Series (2020-21) . . .      

 

1895   Guy'd

 

1894   Black Yard

  

1955   Promises, Promises

 

1914 Harbinger (Igloo)

 

1969 Poets Will Be Named

 

 

1974 Study, Eakins Swimming Hole

 

   2005 Siempre

 

 

   2004 Every Word, Every Letter (2)

       

 

 Around 2020 . . .

 

LA PARED, NOGALES

 

BACK OF THE YARDS
(SANDBURG'S BOY)

 

LA FRONTERA (OR IS IT?)

 

LA LUCHA (THE FIGHT)

 

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)

 

THE OBERDICK HOUSE

 

REACH 1 (PIER)

THE DRAWING ROOM
New Drawings and Collage

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (MUSE/ MUSEUM SERIES)

 

LANDING

  

GRANT WOOD SEZ TO WORLD: COME OUT FIGHTING

 

BACK THERE

FIRST DRAFT

 

 

CHECKERED PASSED (TIED)



 

THE WALL , NOGALES
(LA PARED)

 

JOIN

 

HIGHROAD

 

MOM

 

THE FROST RAILING (Study)

 

D-ICE
(DOUBLE SELF-PORTRAIT)

 

THIS MUST BE AMERICA

  

LIGHTS OUT

 

THE BIGGER PICTURE
A.K.A. THE RIVER

  

FRONTISPIECE
(CARVE YOUR INTITIALS...)

 

TREEHOUSE

POOL  (HONOLULU)

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

SHIP OF COOLS

 

EL MUNDO NUEVO

DO THE MATH

 

SUMMER READING
(study)

 

SHORE

SCENIC ROUTE


DEPTH

CROWN

  Around 2015 . . .      

ZEITGEIST

 

WE HAVE ALL
WAXED AND WANED

 

FACE IT, MADAM DIRECTOR

  

SUBTITLE

 

OUR TOWN
(THE OLD COLONIAL)

THIS TIME AROUND

 

BRUCE NAUMAN: SIXPACT (MUSE / MUSEUM)

GETTY, GET READY

ANTINOUS ET HADRIAN, EMPEROR
(MUSE / MUSEUM)

 

ON THE GROUND (MUSE / MUSEUM)

DRAWING FROM TATTOO DETOUR 10

HITCH

SPUNK & WACK,
EMERGING CURATORS

CERTIFICATE OF HAPPINESS

THE WRITING ON THE WALL

 

DRAWING FROM TATTOO DETOUR 9
DENNIS THE MENACE IN HONOLULU

CHAPBOOK

  

MORE

YOUR TURN

 

DRAWING FROM TATTOO DETOUR 9
DENNIS THE MENACE IN HONOLULU

SWITCH

WINNER (THAT WORD)

FLAT

 

DRAWING FROM TATTOO DETOUR 7

THE ENDURING THEMES

I WANT TO LIVE... HERE !

THE MYSTERIOUSLY ABANDONED NEW MAN

 

DRAWING FROM TATTOO DETOUR 7

GRANT WOOD AMERICAN GOTHIC
(MUSE / MUSEUM)

THRESHOLD

 

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

 

CROWN HALL

  Around 2010 . . .      

SING

THE DISCOVERY OF HONOLULU

BANK SHOT

 

DAY JOB FOR THE NIGHT SKY

 

SAP

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

PROMISES PROMISES

DRAWING FROM TATTOO DETOUR 6

WAITING FOR INSTRUCTIONS

 

LAZY AFTERNOON

NOW AND THEN

 

DRAWING FROM TATTOO DETOUR 6

VAST, YET STILL

BANK

BASE

DRAWING FROM TATTOO DETOUR 5

 

THE MODEL SON

LICHTENSTEIN GIRLS
(MUSE / MUSEUM )

 

MILK & COOKIES

DRAWING FROM TATTOO DETOUR 4

TIME TO GO

DONALD JUDD (MUSE / MUSEUM)

 

EDWARD HOPPER IN PARIS

DRAWING FROM TATTOO DETOUR 4

 Around 2005--2001 . . .      


SIX PACK

REMBRANDT
MUSE / MUSEUM

SCRIPT

DRAWING FROM TATTOO DETOUR 3

MAN GUESSING

MILKY WAY

LONG BEEN SUSPECTED 

DRAWING FROM TATTOO DETOUR 1

THE TRUE CROSS

FROM 2005 CACTUSHEADS

MODERN PHAT

 

FROM 2005 CACTUSHEADS

FRA ANGELICO'S CELL

 

STAND

SHIRTS AND SKINS

A TASK AS OLD AS THE WORLD

TWIN

 

SWEAT

 

 

MOBY DICK

 

 

PARADISE 

 2001 and earlier...      

 
 

THE PERIPHERY OF NEVER

   

THE FALL OF SYNONYM

UNTITLED COLLAGE
from DRAWINGS page

SPANISH MOSS:
AN EFFIGY OF THE SOUTH

 

ROWING NOT DRIFTING

REPORTS OF A SLIDE

 

HOLY CARD

ENVELOPE

CAST OFF THE LIFEBOATS

WESWARD, HO! (ENCYCLOPEDIA)



DEAD RECKONING (NAVIGATION)

 

THE SINK, ROME

BOATS

SHALLOW HOME

RETABLO

 

TODAY I DROVE ALONG THE RIO GRANDE

 

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