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Display of my paintings and works by family.

Parting Looks — HJN

Posted on May 23, 2019 by JMN

Harold J. Nichols (1924 – 2013) (c) 2019 JMN

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Parting Looks –15 by HJN

Posted on May 20, 2019 by JMN

Works by Harold J. Nichols, 1924-2013. (c) 2019 JMN

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Parting Looks — Buck Schiwetz

Posted on May 15, 2019 by JMN

Edward Muegge “Buck” Schiwetz (1898-1984), born in Cuero, Texas. (c) 2019 JMN

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Parting Looks

Posted on May 11, 2019 by JMN

This inadvertently comical drawing by Harold J. Nichols (1924-2013) has a vigor and intensity that I find seductive. It has the top-of-head deficit common amongst us untrained drawers. The brain fools the eye somehow. I think it discounts what’s above … Continue reading →

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Parting Looks

Posted on May 4, 2019 by JMN

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The humans are cartoonish, with unsettling ocular highlights. The man’s buckle and spurs gleam unexpectedly. The beakish woman (clad in denim?) grasps a shepherd’s crook. A bucket dangling from block and tackle drips water drawn from an artesian well. It … Continue reading →

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Parting Looks

Posted on April 30, 2019 by JMN

Harold’s welded tonnage of heroic longhorn steer stands about eight feet tall at the poll (the space between his ears). It’s from an early period — the 80’s. Harold donated the steer to his alma mater, Sul Ross State University … Continue reading →

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Parting Looks

Posted on April 29, 2019 by JMN

This painting has some slight appeal for me. Maybe it’s better called a sketch, and its appeal is in its very sketchiness. It’s flat; there’s no hint of color perspective. The figures are suggested crudely. The paint is slathered on … Continue reading →

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Parting Looks

Posted on April 28, 2019 by JMN

When I re-launched this blog a year ago, my father had died. I imagined one use for the blog as being an archive for images of some of his art works. That particular thrust of the blog faltered. Lately, with … Continue reading →

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Trompe L’oeil

Posted on March 21, 2019 by JMN

“Painting objects and people as they actually appear….” (Andrew Ferren, “A 7-Hour, 6-Mile, Round-the-Museum Tour of the Prado,” NYTimes, 3-18-19) The phrase encapsulates my former goal: To paint something accurately, yet somehow enhanced: A simplistic, naive and ambiguous goal all … Continue reading →

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“Eva”

Posted on March 8, 2019 by JMN
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