Unholy Trinity
(2008) Polymer and gold leaf on canvas, 48″x 38″
“This painting hangs in a big law firm. Given that Cerberus was the three-headed dog that guarded Hades, I thought it appropriate.”
Collection of Butler Snow, Jackson, Mississippi
Aqua Garden – Fish and Flower
(1988) Oil and dry pigment on rag paper, 86″x60″
“At the time I was reading James Dickey’s journal entries in Sorties. This is my response to his call for ‘country surrealism.'”
Private collection, on loan to Ford Center, University of Mississippi
Landscape and Variable: The Bounty and Burden of History
(1988) Polymer paint on canvas, 68″x94″
“Palladio’s Villa Rotunda is high on the ridge. In the foreground is ‘Political Dog, who can show his face and ass at the same time.”
Collection of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans
Three Deer Head for Antietam
(1982) Oil paint and dry pigment on rag paper, 43 1/2″x93 1/2″
“This came out of a deer hunt I went on in Oregon. I made a sketch of these three mule deer and found it much later next to a wash drawing of the battlefield at Antietam in winter. Then the painting just made itself.”
Collection of Cornelia and Meredith Long, Houston, Texas
Landscape and Variable: Downwind Doric Dogs
(2008) Oil and dry pigment on rag paper, 43″x56″
“This one’s part of a series about driving up Interstate 81, which I’ve been doing for decades. The hunters used to occupy that ground – now it’s all industry.”
Private collection
Bud Little’s Levee Works
(2006) Polymer paint on canvas, 36″x70″
“Dr. Bud Little wanted a painting about his cow-calf operation along the Mississippi River levee. When he saw it, he deemed it a ‘family portrait.’ I like that.”
Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Bud Little, Horn Lake, Mississippi
Sacred Smoke
(2009) Polymer paint and gold leaf on canvas, 48″x96″
“One of the best road trips of my life was with chef Donald Link driving through southeast Louisiana. His smoke house reminded me of the Temple of Athena Nike at the Acropolis. I treated it accordingly.”
Collection of Donald Link, New Orleans, Louisiana
