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Roadside ice cream stands are a frequent New England delight. This one in Carlisle Massachusetts has captured the full attention of this little girl who, despite all the options, has settled on "A Small Vanilla".
(Sold) A SMALL VANILLA, acrylic on canvas, 16x20
Catherine and Gavin look across four generations as Nate sleeps through it all. All share the same spark of life that has passed from one to the other. The spark is in good hands as life’s cycle continues.
(Sold) ACROSS GENERATIONS - 21 x 21 - acrylic on canvas
The referees are conferring. Everyone waits to see who should be going in. Whatever their decision, the advantage is ours.
(Sold) AWAITING THE CALL, acrylic on canvas, 48x24
Sometimes the tools can look as good as the lawn.
(Sold) BARROW, acrylic on canvasboard, 9x12
A bee works its way through the hydrangeas, doing her part to assure there will be more of both.
(Sold) BEE WITH HYDRANGEAS, acrylic on canvas, 28x22
The colonials had been building defensive works all night in the dark. Sixty-five year old Colonel Richard Gridley, the first Chief Engineer of the Army, had directed the project. Only officers wore unifiorms that night, and his would be stained in blood when he was carried wounded from the field.
5:15 am came right around dawn. The British watch aboard the HMS Lively had just spotted the Colonials atop Breed's Hill. When Captain Thomas gave the order to open fire the Admiral sent a launch over to ask what the Captain thought he was doing.
This was how one of the most famous battles of all time began, and it was named after the wrong hill - Bunker Hill.
(Sold) BREED'S HILL - 5:15 A.M., acrylic on canvas, 48x26, $1200 + shipping.
If it is foolhardy after the battle to look for some sign of a downed friend when there is still risk from the ground - so be it.
(Sold) BUDDY SEARCH, acrylic on canvas, 24x18
One of the best places to fish for migrating stripers is from the shores of the Cape Cod Canal. When a school passes through, the water boils with excitement.
(Sold) CANAL FISHERMAN, acrylic on canvasboard, 8x10
A Monarch visits the realm.
(Sold) BUTTERFLY, acrylic on canvas, 10x8
The window is closed so he can't come in, but he sure is curious
(Sold) CHICKADEE HELLO, acrlic on gessobord, 4x4
A cash crop in the winter can be hard to find. Under the thin harbor ice the mudflats will still yield enough clams to be worth digging. You just have to get them past those thieving seagulls
(Sold) THE CLAMDIGGER, acrylic on canvas, 24x18
Boston Public Garden in winter is no less wondrous than it is in Summer
(Sold) COMMON SNOW, acrylic on canvas, 43x24
The textile industry relocated from the northeast to the south in the early 1900s. Nevertheless, these mills still dot the landscape and have been adapted to other purposes. This is the Talbot Mill on the Concord River in Billerica Massachusetts.
(Sold) CONCORD RIVER MILL, acrylic on canvas, 24x18
Barnstable Bay on Cape Cod is enclosed by a lengthy dune called Sandy Neck. Without any roads the cottages at its tip are accessible only by boat or by a mile and a half swim. Most think either is worth it.
(Sold) COTTAGES AT SANDY NECK, acrylic on canvas, 20x8
September is cranberry harvest time in Carlisle Massachusetts. When the field is flodded the cranberries float to the top to be scooped up. This painting was featured in the AARP calendar for 2009.
(Sold) CRANBERRY HARVEST, acrylic on canvas, 36x24
Mother, daughter, wife - advantage everyone.
(Sold) DEE, acrylic on canvas, 33x27
Waves tumbling onto the rocks bounce back in many directions on this Scituate, Massachusetts beach.
(Sold) ECHOES IN THE SURF, acrylic on canvas, 18x24
If you want to see a real All-American get your next hair cut at Frenchy's in Millington, Tennessee. The whole business is made from American determination and grit, and Frenchy is proud to show it.
(sold) FRENCHY'S, acrylic on canvas, 24x18
This is what the word "awesome" is meant to describe.
(Sold) GRAND CANYON, acrylic on canvas, 18x24
Just fruit.
(sold) GRAPEFRUIT, acrylic on gessoboard, 4x4
A sailboat heads towards the horizon from Cape Cod's Barnstable Bay.
(Sold) HORIZONS, acrylic on canvas, 10x14
After the apocalypse corporations become everything to everyone. People live and work in airtight office buildings. It is the buildings, not the people, that are mobile. They are shaped like wheels and have a revolving tread around their circumference which enables them to travel on a network of gigantic grooved rails. This one has gone to the end of the line to have its company picnic beside the last remaining tree. Another wheeled building can be seen leaving the area in the background. When this tree is gone, there will be no more picnics.
(Sold) THE LAST CORPORATE PICNIC, acrylic on canvasboard, 22x28, $550
Rake a few New England leaves together on the right day and this is what you get.
(Sold) LEAVES, acrylic on canvas, 24x20
This soaring eagle is an illusion created by varying the shape of many lines.
(Sold) LINES, acrylic on canvasboard, 24x18
This lobster shack is in Cape Neddick, Maine. Enter, and pick out a few live ones from the tank to bring home for supper.
(sold) MAINE LOBSTER SHACK, acrylic on canvas, 28x18
Under the railroad bridge spanning the Cape Cod Canal is an Army field office. The US Army Corps of Engineers built, maintains, and controls the canal. They use the tug Manomet and the patrol boat Onset to help them do it.
(Sold) MANOMET AND THE ONSET, THE, acrylic on canvas, 30x22
Is a beautiful fall day in New England right for a wedding? How could you make a better choice?
(Sold) MARY, acrylic on canvas, 18x24
Lake Chocura at the foot of Mt Chocura in New Hampshire. This has a 3-D look to it because it is done on three layers of glass.
(sold) MOUNTAINVIEW, acrylic on layered glass, 15x11
A summer night's view of lake-side reflections. If you listen hard enough you might hear the crickets.
(Sold) NIGHTDRFIT, acrylic on canvasboard, 28x22
The view from my window seat during a cloudy night's descent into Logan Airport.
(Sold) NIGHT FLIGHT, acrylic on canvasboard, 48x60
Standing on the edge of Lake Ontario.
(Sold) ONTARIO, acrylic on gessobord, 4x4
Wakiki Beach with an outrigger on it. The background consists of some surfboards, bathers, a few hotels and a volcano.
(Sold) OUTRIGGER, pastel on paper, 24x14.5
Boston's Haymarket Square has operated as an open market for decades. Over the years this man and woman have been relying on each other as Partners in many things. Today it happens to be selling dandelions in the market.
(Sold) PARTNERS, acrylic on canvas, 20x24
Starkly beautiful during the day, Pocasset Light performs a critcal function at night.
(Sold) POCASSET LIGHT, acrylic on gessobord, 4x4
Brookline Reservoir is a great place for a stroll. That's a piece of the Boston skyline in the distance.
(sold) PROMENADE, acrylic on canvas, 16x12
If you were sitting in "Section 31" at Fenway Park you'd see something like this. The Orioles are in the field and the Redsox are up. Be careful not to get beaned by those Cracker Jacks you ordered.
(Sold) SECTION 31, acrylic on wood, 37x24
They need lunch too.
(Sold) STEERS GRAZING, acrylic on canvas, 18x24
Long Island lies off the tip of Squantum in Boston Harbor. At its far end sits a fortress in disrepair that used to guard the city. Beyond that, built to protect mariners, stands the lighthouse.
(Sold) SQUANTUM LIGHT acrylic on canvas paper, 9x12
Despite a room full of guests, this couple sees only each other as they begin their wedding dance.
(Sold) THE WEDDING DANCE, acrylic on canvas, 22x23
The artist's father was a camera buff in 1944 and snapped his own photo. He left me many other great things.
(Sold) WHEN COKE TRUCKS WERE YELLOW, acrylic on canvas, 18x24