This painting was inspired by an Ohio State University yearbook. The twenty-two-year-old graduates, including the artist with their flat tops, bouffants, and flips, were optimistically ready to leave their student realm and enter the real world to make their mark. These graduates are now parents, and their own children are optimistically facing life as the graduates once had done. How quickly time passes and how speedily lost is our youthful idealism.
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Madlyn and Larry
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The Wally Spiegel Family
Commissioned portrait of the Wally Spiegel Family, who emigrated from Russia to the U.S.
Tallit and Bandolier
The survivors of the Holocaust, vowing to never let themselves be put in a weak position again, moved to their ancient homeland, Israel, and built a country that required an army to keep them safe.
Red Scare
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The Breakup of the USSR
All the signs were glaringly obvious, so Fenton, “of the duck and cover generation,” made this prediction painting that the USSR was going to break up. He used a blown-up Soviet tank as a visual metaphor for the giant’s collapse.
Mount Rushmore Disposition
Gutzon Borglum carved the presidents’ portraits out of the granite of Mount Rushmore, and Fenton paid homage to the sculptor and his accomplishment with a rearrangement of his work in paint.
Gertrude’s Trunk- Boys will be Boys
This is part of the Gertrude’s Trunk series and highlights the astonishing energy pictured by the long-gone youthful participants.
Gertrude’s Trunk – Wintrop and Eugene
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Gertrude’s Trunk-Thursday Stanley took me to the Park
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