"Ten Moments from the Twentieth Century"

This grouping of paintings, 7/06 - 11/06, is titled “10 moments from the 20th century.” My goal was to pick ten images that made history, and then paint them with the goal of re-enlarging their original meaning. Each painting, using oil, paper and compound on birch panel, is two feet square. The specific moments the paintings are listed below each painting.

 a solitary corpse in Sarajevo 

Christopher Reeves filming first superman movie, 1978

girls wearing mini dresses, 1969

 Woodstock Music Festival 1969, revival, mud and rain, 1996

Woodstock, NY, commune, 1970

Hollywood set of “ The Greatest Story Ever Told” 1965

Lennart Nilsson photographs inside the human womb, 4/30/65

petrol bombs thrown by Catholics in Belfast

Bruce McCandless jet packing untethered from Challenger spacecraft, 1984

Aloha Flight 243, 1988

(1.) Bruce McCandless jet packing untethered from Challenger spacecraft, 1984 - (2.) a solitary corpse in Sarajevo - (3.) Woodstock, NY, commune, 1970 - (4.) Woodstock Music Festival 1969, revival, mud and rain, 1996 - (5.) petrol bombs thrown by Catholics in Belfast - (6.) girls wearing mini dresses, 1969 - (7.) Christopher Reeves filming first superman movie, 1978 - (8.) first launch of space shuttle Columbia 1981 / Hollywood set of “ The Greatest Story Ever Told” 1965 - (9.) Lennart Nilsson photographs inside the human womb, 4/30/65 - (10.) Aloha Flight 243, fuselage rips apart at 24,000 ft., 1988