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| Toast to Noble Warriors 1st Edition / 350 prints  14” x 22” $300.00 18” x 28” $460.00 24” x 36” $730.00 Printed on canvas using archival inks and mounted on solid boards ready for hanging. All prints come with a hand signed Certificate of Authenticity from the artist and a Certificate of Print Quality. |
| Toast to Noble Warriors Bio Toast to Noble Warriors began after my father passed away. He was a member of what Tom Brokaw called “The Greatest Generation”. With his passing, I thought also of his buddies, the men in the VFW halls that he shared his stories with, men that either passed from this world before him or are soon to follow. It wasn’t until late in his life that he shared some of his memories with me. He was in his seventies, sitting on the kitchen chair, and in a casual voice he uttered, “Yea, I went into the Hurtgen Forest with over a thousand men and walked out with a little over a hundred. “ I feared to imagine what he had seen though I listened intently. I listened to the stories of the children that yelled, “Chocolate!" when they saw American GIs. I listened when he told me how his friend was blown up next to him. I listened when he told me that after surviving the Hurtgen, he and the men he fought beside entered the town of Cologne where the great cathedral stood. The GIs, of many different religions, walked into the battered yet standing building amidst the flattened city, dropped to their knees, and prayed silently to their God. I listened when he told me how he and his unit liberated the Dachau Concentration Camp. My mother told me that my father returned from the war with a wounded soul. He became a firefighter to save lives because he had seen too much of death. Ken Burns said, “It was a necessary war.” And I agree. Therefore, to those men, and to my father, now that I am old enough to realize what they gave and what it cost, I want to say thank you. Though my thank you is but a faint whisper to commemorate their deeds, let us remember what Abraham Lincoln said: that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of free dom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. April 26, 2008 |
The Irish Round Tower Irish Round Tower print with hand painted 3 dimensional frame to match 15” x 25”: $850.00 Canvas Print Archival Inks, top coated with quality lacquer, and mounted |
| The Irish Round Tower Scattered throughout Ireland, the close to impenetrable round towers has served as a refuge from invading warring kings and Vikings, as well as watchtowers, as beacons, as storehouses for religious treasures and relics.. . . among other things. Their doors are five meters above the ground; therefore, one must climb a ladder to enter them. The base of the tower is usually some 4.5 meters in diameter; the walls can be up to 1.5 meters thick. Their foundations are surprisingly shallow, less than a meter, and to provide extra strength they are usually filled to the level of the door with packed stones and rubble bonded with lime mortar. Most Round Towers have wooden floors, although there are two surviving examples with stone floors. Very few intermediate storeys have windows but the top floors usually have four, facing the cardinal points. It is said that there was once a princess who sought refuge in a round tower. She locked herself in until her beloved knight arrived to rescue her from a beastly lord to whom her family was forcing her to marry. She stayed in the tower for six months, the time it took her love to defeat the powerful lord. Finally, after he did so, he gained the princess as his wife. Whether or not the couple lived happily ever after is for another tale but it is known that they had in-law problems. Irish Proverb: There is no cure for love other than marriage. |
Wanna Trot? 11” X 22” $230.00 18” X 36” $500.00 22” X 44” $750.00 24” X 48” $870.00 Canvas Print Archival Inks, top coated with quality lacquer, and mounted |
Christine's Unicorn 5 1/2” X 7” $ 60.00 11” X 14” $180.00 15” X 24” $440.00 Canvas Print Archival Inks, top coated with quality lacquer Larger sizes are mounted |