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KNIT ONE, PURL TWO
"knit two together", 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper. My favorite local knit shop, Jessica Knits and Crochets, has offered to show and sell my knitting related images in their Scottsdale store, so I am beginning a new series called Knit one, purl two.
SHARDS OF GLASS
"shattered life", 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper. Margarito Garcia Yuma Prisoner 2987 So, sometimes I can find a bunch of information, and sometimes none at all. For Margarito Garcia there was a scattering of unrelated material, only one thing pulled these...
BROKEN STORIES
"roy got ditched" 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photo paper. Broken Arm Last Sunday Roy C. Dalton of this place received a broken arm last Sunday afternoon enroute from the scene of the tragic death of the members of the Strickland family about fourteen miles north of...
BROKEN STORIES
"after the fourth" 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photo paper. Hit and Run While returning to her home in Clint last night after the Fourth in El Paso, Miss Williams, daughter of Miles Williams of that village, was thrown from a buggy on the county road and sustained a...
TESTING
Today I wanted to experiment with painting right onto an old photo. It was difficult to do emotionally because it meant that it is no longer that photograph. Technically it was also challenging. It is kodak paper, so I thought it could stand being wet, but it curled...
PURLOINING PORTER
"check your baggage?", 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper. Charles Kelley Yuma Prisoner 1982 Charles Kelley, who while porter for the Hotel Weatherford, in February appropriated a valise belonging to one of the guests, entered a plea of guilty to the charge of...
SANTA FE FREIGHT CAR ROBBED
"forks and knives", 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper. Harry Stanton Yuma Prisoner 1964 Charles Jones and Harry Stanton (pictured), who broke Into a Santa Fe freight car, in October last and appropriated a lot of cutlery, entered a plea of guilty to the charge of...
REVOLVER
"expression: sinister", 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper. William Kirk Yuma Prisoner 1965 William Kirk, who in November last assaulted a man with a revolver in a Williams saloon, plead guilty to a charge of assault with intent to commit murder, was sentenced to a...
THE TROUBLE WITH TRIMBLE
As I research stories from turn of the twentieth century I am truly struck by the hardness of life, especially in the American West. This is one story that left me feeling especially forlorn. "my wife was 1919" 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper. When he was arrested...
JOIN ME AT THE HILTON IN MESA
I will be at the Hilton Phoenix/Mesa with my series "Little Truths" paintings and catalogs. Stop by and visit with me in the Kiva Foyer during the Arizona Historic Preservation Conference on Thursday and Friday June 13 and 14 from 8 am to 5 pm, or come by for a free...
PRISON PLATES
"nabor pacheco's plate" photo lithography transfer on ceramic plate, glazed and fired, 7.75 inch round. In the continuing series of Yuma prisoner paintings I have also been experimenting with some accompanying items. Today I picked up four plates that I left at...
WHEN 120 DOLLARS WAS GRAND LARCENY
"i had a telescope case in my pocket" 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper. George Bates Yuma Prisoner 1889 The Wellington Saloon was opened in 1902 by the McCoy family of Prescott, AZ. Just a few mornings after it opened, George Bates, a young man, made a grab at the...