“To Matisse” 1980

August 15, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Mixed media, 24” x 14”. Unknown location.

“Snow On Tree Pile” 1999

August 11, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Collage and acrylic on canvas, 100” x 156”.

“Prairie Cyclops” 1992

August 8, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Mixed media, 18” x 10” x 8”. Artist’s collection. In Iowa I would occasionally visit someone’s farm buildings. They always gave me the creeps. Something sinister about all the things hidden in a hay loft. Ropes, chains, hooks, pitch forks lurking in the darkness. I always imagined a lynching ….. or being trampled by a […]

“Orchardhouse Painted Proof” 2004

August 8, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Hand-colored intaglio 22” x 30”. Collection of Christine Crookall.

“Monument to Sarajevo” 1993

August 8, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Mixed media, 32” x 35”. Artist’s collection The pictures of the siege of Sarajevo looked like Dresden. I used newspaper to collage up a sanctuary likeness. To me it felt like silence.

“On The Day Of The Arrows” 1984

August 8, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Oil and mixed media, 72” x 44”. Artist’s collection.

“Vortex Box” 1982

August 1, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

16 1/2” x 24”. Unknown location. one of my many painting boxes. The figure and the horse is a collage of an image taken from a beautiful screen in The Cleveland Museum of Art titled “Horses & Their Grooms”. The Vortex is taken from DuChamp and I use it for its intrinsic feeling of a […]

“Ritual” 1984

August 1, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

Mixed media on canvas, 80” x 80”. Collection of Kenneth Minton. My mother was a CanDian and an Irish Catholic on her mom”s side. So Like it or not I was destined to be an alter boy. As it happened, I studied the Latin in Buffalo but moved to Iowa mid semester. As a […]