Livestock
There is a long tradition of folk art related to agriculture and livestock. Perhaps because of my love of Hicks’ paintings, I pride in creating animal portraits based on period prints and photographs. This craft can certainly be extended to pets, as the tortoise portrait below demonstrates!
Buck
Just over a year ago I met Buck, the resident ox at Hancock Shaker village. He was so monumental standing there in front of the world famous round barn, that I has to immortalize him on canvas. Although the work is in the tradition of mid-nineteenth century livestock portrait, I chose to present him and his handler as they stood there in Fall 2007, a proud mix of past and present.
16” x 20” oil on canvas $675
Champion Livestock Slates
Painting on school slates was a popular folk craft in the middle and late 1880s, a tradition revived here by the Limner. For subjects I have chosen champion livestock as suggested by antique engravings in the 1865 Report of the U.S. Commissioner of Agriculture. Each is painted in oils and features a lettered and grained frame. (While these are sold, others are available) $95 each
And, just for fun...
