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Gallery: Paintings done during transition from
U.S.A. to France 2000 - 1999 1999-2000 were the Paper Years when I was settling into life in Southern France. I took these years as an opportunity to re explore my roots in Abstract Expression. Several different Series (Emotion, Violes, Transition, Oklahoma, French Postcard and Tuscan Landscape) emerged from the search. There was a lot of paper. Emotion Series 2000 Emotion Series paintings are abstract expressions of different emotions and thoughts. We had just bought our house/studio and were in the process of ripping walls out. Maybe that explains some of the thoughts.
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Winter for a Birch Tree
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Zorro in a Hurry | Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall |
France to Italy Through the Alps |
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What Else Is Red on a Redneck? |
Seeing Life Through Red Colored Glasses | Tread Marks of a Life |
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Violes is a village in the Vacluse, Provence where we were renting a vacation home from a retired French General in the Army when these abstract expression paintings of different random and interesting thoughts were created. From the Grand Canyon as Seen by an Earth Worm to the Zulu Warrior, they were all fun.
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Bursting Soap Bubbles
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Hang Your Head |
Pipe Smoker's Heaven
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Zulu Warrior
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Where Stick and Puck Meet
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The Sea is on Fire |
Road Subject to Flooding
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The Little Engine That Could |
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Late to Work
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Grand Canyon As Seen by an Earth Worm |
Oklahoma, Tornado Alley |
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Rituals of Easter Island |
Trees Bleed Too |
| Transition Series 1999 |
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The paintings of the Transition Series were done in abstract expression style in the last days of my transition from Professor of Architecture at Oklahoma State University to an American artist living and working in Condorcet, France. The meaning is implied by the title.
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King Kong and the Statue of Liberty |
Poppy Field
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Statue of Liberty |
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Born in the U.S.A. |
Grape Harvest
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Hoof and Mouth Disease
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Assembly Line Work
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Struggle Between Good and Evil |
Ascension
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Watching Night Fall |
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One For the Road |
First Color of Spring
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Hot Day at the Beach |
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I Want to be Buried, Not Cremated
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What Happens When You Die? |
Mountain Man
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Scream for Help
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Coastal Road Near Nice |
Charge of the Light Brigade
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Man Lurking In the Trees
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Skiing Mont Ventoux in April |
Is Santa Claus at Home?
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Show at the Moulin Rouge
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Land at Last
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We Have Lift Off |
Danger, Coastal Storms Tonight |
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Scream for Mercy |
Children of a Lesser God
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Waterfall |
The Sword of Freedom |
Oklahoma Series 1999
Oklahoma Series. Paintings on paper in abstract expression style done in the last semester I taught after making the decision to leave Stillwater, Oklahoma and move to France.
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Winter Snow Becomes the Floods of Spring |
Moving Day |
First Light on the Frozen Plain |
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Memories of a P.O.W.
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Exit Wound | Cleopatra |
Hold On |
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Chimney Sweep
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Reflections on Past Decisions |
Reflections on Modern Architecture
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Memories of a P.O.W. Camp 2 |
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Survivor of Hiroshima
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Cut Off Your Nose to Spite Your Face |
Eloping
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Dot All Your Eyes |
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Barbed Wire With an Attitude
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Horde From the Steppes |
The Red Lagoon
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Snow Ladder
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Medieval Moat
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Dove of Peace
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Turn on Your Lights Before Entering Tunnel
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Wait, I Fell Off
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Mini Skirt
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Rome Is Burning |
Watch Out for Pedestrians |
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Joan of Arc's Last Crusade
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Old Man
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The Germany of Hitler |
Stage Fright |
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The Great Pyramid of Gaza
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Romeo and Juilet |
Floating In the Swimming Pool |
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Expect Waves 40 Meters High
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Return From the Sea
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My Nose Is Frozen
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Back to Back
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I Think, Therefore, I Am | The America Cup's Race |
Doggy Style |
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Dreaming of a Red Man Wearing a Blue Hat
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Dance at Court |
Building the Monoliths at Easter Island
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The Anaconda
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French Foreign Legion |
The Royal Box
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Smokey the Bear or You Can Prevent Forest Fires |
Tiger Woods' Gallery at the Masters
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You Are Peeking |
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One Would Have Killed Him |
The Light Was Green Officer
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Fly High My Son |
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The Spirits Still Watch Over the Land
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This Is Fun, Do You Want to Try? |
| French Postcard Series 1999 |
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French Postcard Series. Paintings on paper in abstract expression style done in the Summer of 1999 in Versailles, France.
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Fifty-Eight
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Fifty-Seven |
Fifty-Three
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Fifty-Five |
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Fifty-Four
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Fifty
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Thirty-Six
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Twenty-Five
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Forty-Nine
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Thirty-Five
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Forty-Seven |
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Forty-Three
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Thirty-Four
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Forty-Four |
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Thirty-Three
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Thirty-Two |
Thirty-One |
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Thirty
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Twenty-Nine |
Eighteen
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Eleven
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Nineteen
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Twenty-Six |
Twenty-One
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Twenty-Four
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Seventeen |
Twelve
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Fifteen | |
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Five
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Sixteen
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One
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| Tuscan Landscape Series 1999 |
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Paintings of the Tuscan landscape as abstraction and patterns done while staying at an estate outside of Siena, Italy.
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Tuscan Landscape Two
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