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Homework — Description
Oils on canvas
14 x 11"
1985

The original buyer of this painting is now in a nursing home, 91 years old. His daughter owns the painting and is so good as to bring it by for me to photograph properly.

I have no memory of having painted this, although I've done variations on this subject over the years in various media. What a surprise to see it again!

In the back of the canvas is a card that reads:
"Homework
Oils on canvas
14 x 11"
$85."

That's how it was for this beginning artist. I'd sell fine early works for practically nothing. It was uncanny how my sales in those days would come just at the time we needed to pay the rent. And we lived in an apartment that, in those days, $85.00 would just about cover a month's rent.