We had to visit the county seat today (renewing license plates) and my wife wanted to visit her mom in the care center there. While waiting for my wife I went to the storage unit, a few blocks away, where we stored a lot of stuff from my parents’ house when they went into senior housing. I hadn’t been there in awhile and thought I should do some inventory to see if this stuff really needed to be saved. I found these two small paintings in a box inside a plastic tote.
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My dad was a commercial artist and illustrator from 1949-1960, in Denver, CO. We moved back to the farm in early ‘61. Dad saved a lot of the artwork he did while working on advertising layouts. I thought we had saved everything that wasn’t just a rough sketch. These looked worthy of framing, even though they were probably done quickly (they’re acrylic paint on cardboard) just to show the same scene in different lighting. I’m sure we’ll find someplace to display them (as if we need more stuff at this point in our lives
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