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Medium: Oil
Support: Gallery-wrapped stretched canvas
Finish: Gamvar archival picture varnish
Size: 36" h x 24" w x 1.5" deep
ARTIST'S COLLECTION
*There are some paintings I don't want to part with. Will do similar one on commission.
Support: Gallery-wrapped stretched canvas
Finish: Gamvar archival picture varnish
Size: 36" h x 24" w x 1.5" deep
ARTIST'S COLLECTION
*There are some paintings I don't want to part with. Will do similar one on commission.
Growing up in Chicago, IL, I daydreamed of being a cowgirl on a ranch out West. In middle age, I got to live my girlhood fantasy on a small spread we bought. When our new ranch neighbors learned I was disappointed because I didn’t find any cattle skulls on our place, they began dropping off steer and cow heads from their ranches and my collection grew until I had to yell stop. Over the years in my later somewhat nomadic life, I hauled the skulls around until I finally settled in New Mexico where they could be found about the yard and house as decorations. They dwindled down to few due to accidental mishaps, as one guest stepping on one and breaking its brittle bone beyond repair and another meeting its fate by a new pet dog thinking the big bone in the rock & cactus garden was his to chew on. The biggest, the only bullhead in my collection, now safely lives in my kiva fireplace that doesn’t get otherwise used. He served as a model for this painting and I imagine he was a good old big bull worth the memorial.
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Donna Vesely New Mexico
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