Number 75: Boathouse and Observatory, February 26, 2021.
This is one of the 42 small paintings (8" x 5 1/2") I refer to as my Cezanne Suite, not because they are about Cezanne, but because they are painted on the pages of a broken paperback edition of art critic Roger Fry's book Cezanne, A Study of His Development.
Number 67
Two pages from a small booklet
(5 1/2" x 3 1/2") titled Fake Futurist Notebook, 2017-19.
The left page holds a still life with a hapless accompanying poem, while the right page bears a small scruffy painting called "Red Buddha." Both pages were apparently made on May 9, 2019.
Number 59: Flowers for Aquinas,"The Dumb Ox." (November 12, 2020).
The painting is "for Aquinas" because of its displaying a certain (for me) vivid crudity of which I am currently and joyfully in pursuit. The "Dumb Ox" Aquinas reference comes from G.K. Chesterton's brilliant study, Saint Thomas Aquinas:The "Dumb Ox" (Image Books, 1959). "Saint Thomas was so stolid," writes Chesterton, "that the scholars, in the schools which he attended regularly, thought he was a dunce" (p.21).
Chesterton also observes that "The saint is a medicine because he is an antidote" (p. 23).
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