Category: Painting

“Octopus Tree Pile” 2018

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Oil on canvas.   Artist’s Collection.    This  tree pile was kind of a sidetrack I took to get me back Into a more expressionistic way of painting.   I wanted get back to real painting and be less tied into content.  So when this piece started to look more like tentacles than trees I […]

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“Boar” 2018

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Oil and gilding on canvas, 24″ x 31″. Collection, Bill Roseberry, McLean, VA. There is this old story about wild Boar I like.  It tells much about the Japanese psyche.  It goes something like this – – Lord Nabeshima was out hunting with his men.  It was hot and dry when they came to a […]

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“Snow On Fuji” 1975

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Magna on raw canvas-triptych. 72” x 72”.  Artist’s collection. I was reading Yukio Mishima and being tutored Nihongo by Tachan Ruff.  My Great Grandfathers Sword was on my mind as were various brush marks from my Kanji practice.  The pattern for this is from a Hindu silk.  The shapes  in negative formed by the white […]

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“Round Pile” 1999

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Sumi ink on paper, 24” x 30”. Unknown location. One of many treepiles.  I began doing these when I moved from DC (near Chinatown) to Berryville about 3/4 hrs outside of Washington.  At that time our little town was too far away to serve as a commuter village because of the distance.  They had begun […]

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“Retablo, Single Stick” 1993

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Oil on copper plate, 6” x 14”. One of many “retablo paintings” inspired by Mexican retablos, ex-votos, and Frida Khalo.  This stick image was first used in my sculpture “Monument to A  World War”.  It may be inspired by ‘The big stick’ in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 and the Big Bomb of Doctor Strangelove & Slim […]

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