“Green Cage Red Shadow” 1998
Oil on canvas, 36” x 48”. Unknown location.
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“Cage With Newspaper” 1990
Oil on canvas, 72” x 84”. Collection of Gail & John Enns I was asked to do a couple of paintings for a show curated by Noriko Gambling at The Long Beach Museum of Art. I had already done a very large chicken cage and while working on it I realized how much it […]
Read More“Cage/Box II” 1998
Oil on wood box, 18” x 24”. Unknown location. These painted boxes (I did between 5 & 10) were done on paintboxes discarded by my students at The Catholic University of America. The sizes varied a bit but were generally about 18 inches tall. Some are cut like a woodblock print and then painted. The […]
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Oil on wood box, 16” x 24”. Unknown location.
Read More“Cage” 1992
Oil and gilding on canvas, 36” x 48”. Unknown location.
Read More“Memories Byõbu” Verso 1991
Oil & gilding on byõbu, 18” x 144”. @Bernice Steinbaum.
Read More“Queequeg and Moby” 1999
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 […]
Read More“Memories Byõbu” 1991
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 […]
Read More“Ah So Can U C” 1976
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 […]
Read More“Vortex Box” 1982
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 […]
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