“Queequeg and Moby” 1999

August 3, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

Oil & gilding on byõbu, 14” x 36”. Collection of Sarah Cohen. i was always fascinated by Queequeg. He filled the bill for what men once called a noble savage. With his tattooed face he seemed more like Moby than like his fellow sailors. He was really much more part of nature and more kin […]

“Coffin-Cage Byõbu” 1992

August 2, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Oil & gilding on byõbu, 14” x 48”.

“Memories Byõbu” 1991

August 2, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

Oil & gilding on byõbu, 18” x 144”. Bernice Steinbaum collection. My friend Marty Amt rescued these wooden cores for this byobu from the dumpster behind the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery. The were sugi (Japanese cedar) at least 200 years old and they sat inside a beautiful black lacquer box. The cores are the skeleton of […]

“Ah So Can U C” 1976

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

Acrylic on raw canvas, 96” x 72”. Collection of Bob & Colleen Anderson Done in 1976 Ah So Can U C was a pun on the bicentennial year. It used 4 colors – red, white, blue & yellow (for the race). The image was influenced by my study of Kanji (Chinese characters used for writing […]

“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 […]