Rest Stop Ahead

December 5, 2013

aka Journey, aka Resting Along the Way, aka Scenic Area Next Right,  oil on canvas, 21″ x 65″     Available Thirty years ago, when I painted today’s art, I was living in Portsmouth NH; had been living there since May 1982, and would stay  another two and a half years, leaving April 1986 for […]

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Moon Rise and Windrows

December 4, 2013

acrylic on masonite panel, 24″ x 28″; framed in antique window sash, 27″ x 32″     Available for Sale Friday, 20 September 2013: inspired by the creativity of the day before (yesterday’s post) I launched into another moon painting by daylight. The Lambert brothers had started haying the fields surrounding the farm on Thursday; […]

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Moon Rise over the Saco

December 3, 2013

acrylic on masonite panel, 22″ x 32″; framed in antique window sash, 25″ x 34.” In the collection of Selena Starbard While in Dayton, Maine enjoying some fresh country air during late September this year, I rediscovered, amongst other possessions stored at the back of my brother Clark’s barn, a paperback on the work of […]

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MoonRise Sayonara

December 2, 2013

aka Grand Illusions #1, inspired by the classic When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain* acrylic on canvas, 15″ x 30″ Yesterday’s art harks back to 1975, thirty-eight years ago – a time when my work was primarily figurative. Today’s art is as recent as yesterday, with landscape taking center stage and figure becoming a secondary, […]

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Christmas 1975

December 1, 2013

Thirty-eight years ago, right around this time, I was working on the artwork that starts this year’s Advent Extravaganza, the first posting of 37 that will happen between now and Epiphany, January 6, the 12th Day of Christmas, God willing. I was living in New York City, in the midst of a two year period […]

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POST 2013 October 5-6

October 3, 2013

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Sun Worshippers

June 2, 2013

12″ x 20.5″ acrylic on plywood panel May 18: Shortly before dinner on Saturday night, flush with excitement about the quality of the work created earlier that day (thanks to the positive feedback of friends J&C, family M&D, and neighbor Jan), I made a statement regarding painting-while-on-vacation: my projected aim was to focus on creating a […]

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The Mighty Mississippi from Eagle Ridge, Ferryville, Wisconsin

June 1, 2013

12″ x 24″ acrylic on masonite panel Tuesday May 14 friend Charlie Zimmerman and I packed his Subaru BRZ with two weeks worth of clothes, a few books, plus painting supplies for myself, and headed for Ferryville Wisconsin, with a three-night stop-over in Chicago. We arrived there Tuesday night after a 14 hour drive low-lighted […]

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Good Friday

March 31, 2013

pencil and acrylic on paper, 13″ x 10″ Recently while reviewing some old drawings done during the mid 70s I discovered a pencil drawing on watercolor paper that had never been developed beyond its first sketchy state. I liked the composition enough to revisit the drawing. I redefined in pencil the circle of 12 and […]

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Inside, Looking Out #1

January 28, 2013

aka Down the Intervale #1 oil on canvasboard – 20″ x 16″ framed in stained maple – 24″ x 20″ Taking a stress break in late summer 1973 from the heat of New York City, I visited Mom and Dad Cole in Dayton, Maine for four weeks, from mid-August to mid-September. While there I painted […]

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Last Load of Hay

January 25, 2013

oil on linen canvas 18″ x 36″ collection of Liam & Melissa Braber In October 2009, at my parents memorial, first-cousin Caroline Strong, now also deceased, handed me an envelope of old snapshots, assuring me I didn’t need to return them. Enclosed was a medley of childhood memories, including numerous group shots in which appeared […]

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Haying Season

January 18, 2013

oil on plywood – 9″ x 19″ aka Down the Intervale #14 It’s all about timing. Tuesday, July 10, 2012 was my last day vacationing in Dayton, leaving the next for Vermont. I spent the early afternoon working on the small panel depicted, from the back of the barn. The fields were golden with ripe […]

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Under the Ash Tree

January 18, 2013

aka Inside, Looking Out #16  oil on plywood panel – 20″ x 25″ – framed with antique window sash Visiting the old home place in Dayton as a guest of my brother Clark and sister-in-law Georgie over the 4th of July holidays 2012, I arrived just in time to watch the haying of 60-plus acres of […]

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Cole Farm on the Hill #1

January 18, 2013

aka Inside, Looking Out #12 oil on masonite – 30″ x 24.5″ – framed with antique window sash While in Dayton in August of 2011, I found five old weather-beaten window sashes in the back of my brother Clark’s barn, formerly my dad’s. The windows had been replaced with newer ones in the 90s, but […]

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Inside, Looking Out #8

January 18, 2013

aka Looking Through Glass Darkly oil on plywood panel – 16″ x 21″ Painted in the attic of Kate’s home in Springfield, Vermont, this view of the hill directly behind the house is seen through two layers of windows. The mysterious darkness of the interior highlights the straight-forward exterior world of bright natural light with […]

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