Historical Paintings
Terminal Moraine- Brooklyn Panorama, 1776, 2012, 32X72in, Brooklyn soil, oil stick, charcoal, house paint, on paper shopping bags. A birds eye view of Brooklyn as it would have looked during the battle of Brooklyn in 1776. Painted with local soil to show the terrain as it was then.
Exodus 1 2013, 32X72in, charcoal, house paint, on paper shopping bags. Painting showing the fragile boats of General Washington’s army crossing the East River in 1776.
Iron Rain Antietam 2018 Iron Rust pigment, on photographic transfer mounted on board.12”x18”
Gun Powder Sky 2019, 99in x 89in. March Grass, Charcoal, Sulfur, Iron rust, House paint on paper shopping bags.
Sulfur Angel 6” X18” Sulfur used as pigment on ink jet on panel 2016
Below is a series called “The Generals”. They are oil on plywood, mounted on a 11/2 inch wood stretcher bar. Each portrait is 11"x14". I spent about one month painting them and I have about 20 in all. I had originally envisioned displaying them hung in a grid format on the wall of five across by four high. But now I've grown accustom to them stacked one on top of another on the floor.
This series was inspired after reading Stephen W. Sears book "Gettysburg". Whenever I came across the name of a Union officer who's heroic action during the battle moved me, I looked up there photograph in the on-line picture collection of the Library of Congress. They have some high resolution TIFF files of most of the Union officers. It was fascinating connecting a face with there heroic act. My love of the photographic images of the time and the intersection of painting took over from there and below is the results.
H. W. Slocum 2013, Oil on Panel 12”x14”
Maryland Willow of the Gowanus, 2017, 98in x 88in, Ink Jet print, paper shopping bags, house paint, ink, charcoal. The willow leaves are inscribed with the names of the soldiers from Maryland that fought and are buried around the Gowanus area in 1776.
Battlefield 6”x18” 2020, Ink jet print on Panel
A. Ames 2013 Oil on panel 12”x14”
Battlefield 8”x 11” Found Iron on Ink Jet Print on panel.
Antietam Scared Soil- Battlefield Soil on inkjet print 6”x 24” 2015
A. Dubbleday 2013, Oil on panel 12”x14”
D. E. Sickles 2013, Oil on Panel 12”x14”
Henry Baxter 2013, Oil on Panel 12”x14”
Samual Zook 2013, Oil on Panel 12”x14”
"In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls. And reverent men and women from afar, and generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field, to ponder and dream; and lo!” Joshua L. Chamberlain, Gettysburg.