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Priceless Objets d'Art

  Included in and concluding this collection is a page of value-less art that I included only to make the number of squares come out even on the Art Gallery page.  These paintings require little explanatiion, but they're kind of fun. And...this is one page where you aren't being asked to buy ANYTHING!


Liz's First Basset. Sometime in  2001, I think, I came up with this Basset. My husband said it was a cartoon Basset, my mother claimed her eyes were too close together; my friends called her a Folk Basset. I went with the latter. She now resides on our screened-in back porch..
Ruby's World. Andrew Wyeth is one of my favorite painters and Christina's World  is one of his best known works.  (Master Bedroom is my favorite painting by Wyeth.) At one point, I decided to do a "copy" of Christina's World, substituting our beloved Ruby for the main subject, a woman afflicted with polio as a child.
   I might have developed the painting more except for the challenge of the sea of grass that I simply could not master. When Wyeth died in 2009, I read a biography about him and was relieved to learn of his frustration with "the endless brown grass" that had occupied him for three months one summer. In trying to emulate him,  I had concluded that he must have had to paint it one blade, one frond at a time....and that's precisely what he did, according to the biography!
Staircase Group. Staircase Group 1795 was painted by Charles Wilson Peale of Philadelphia, who was well known for his portraiture of George Washington and other early American statesmen. The green door and the two young men ascending the stair is a trompe d'loeil, painted on a door to "fool the eye" into thinking the boys and the stairway were three dimensional reality. Peale's work, mounted convincingly on a door, was on display at the National Gallery in a 2002-2003  exhibition of Five Centuries of  Trompe d'Loeil Paintings.
    I attended the exhibit and came home eager to adapt Peale's idea to my own home and household--particularly a storage closet on the landing of our stairs. The result, pretty paltry by comparison, is Staircase Group 2003. Someday I'll go back and make the dogs better.
    My husband put some kind of gizmo in the door that makes it open when pressed, to avoid an unsightly door knob.

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The Picture That Won't Go Away. My husband loves this painting and won't let me put it out at the curb, though heaven knows I've tried. Not only does he refuse to get rid of it or put it up in the attic, it hangs by our front door, the first thing people see when they enter.
    Obviously, this was an early picture. Barney, our adored, adoring, and brilliant Labrachow, lies on the top step,   Below him is Ruby, whom Barney raised. Our first Basset Lilly died before I started painting.  She was a winner in every aspect and made us Basset Bums forever.
     The rug is now gone, the dogs are now gone, but a bad painting hangs on forever.