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Kentucky Paintings
Devou Park Clubhouse, 16" x 12", oil on board, September 21, 2008 All painted during Behringer-Crawford's FreshArt Event, held every year at this time. Tom participated for the first seven years and then laid off for seven until now. He just had to come back because it is so much fun. He knows over half of the artists and the quests at the auction in the evening. He grew up on the edge of Devou Park at Breckinridge and Montague Rd. He used to hang out at the museum when he was ten spending everyday up there with Mr. Crawford. Before that, he used to hang out at the clubhouse. He and his identical twin brother were too small to caddie but that did not prevent them from playing tricks on the golfers. They would hang out just below where you could see as the golfers hit off the first tee. They would steal their balls before they came over the hill and sell them before they got back in the clubhouse. They enjoyed many candy bars until they were caught then they went to the museum to play havoc. Tom still as dreams of the clubhouse’s huge golf outings with burgoo and secret passages below the clubhouse.
Devou Park Clubhouse, 16" x 12", oil on board, September 19, 2007
Rabbithash Kentucky II, 16" 12", oil on board, August 2005
Click image to see larger image.Rising Sun, 16" 12", oil on board, August 2005 Painted from life below the Rabbit Hash General Store, Tom was working on two portrait commissions nearby and would not miss stopping at Rabbit Hash afterwards. A huge cauldron sits near the water. The creek is clean and a wonderful place for children to play. Tom would take Helen, his 7-year-old daughter, and she would play with the other children in a nostalgic setting. Little did he know that the creek was clean of broken glass for it was a rule but not the riverbank. While his daughter was walking in the water in the foreground, she suffered multiple cuts on her feet. Freaked out, Tom carried her to the car and treated her with alcohol much to her shrieking.List
Farm, Flemingsburg Kentucky,
Covington Landing, 36" x 24", Oil on canvas, 1988  Gentry Tobacco Warehouse, Lexington, Kentucky $1,200, July 5 1998, Oil on canvas, 10" x 8" Painted over four years. Tom's wife spends a day every summer in Lexington, Kentucky at a professional meeting and during that time, Tom spent his time researching the tobacco auction business for a possible painting. His patron had had in their family a large tobacco warehouse, which they had sold. He wanted to at least have a painting of it.
Devou Park Clubhouse, 16" x 12", oil on board, September 9th, 2006 Devou Park Clubhouse, 10" x 8", oil on board, September 9th, 2006 Both painted during Behringer-Crawford's FreshArt Event, held every year at this time. Tom participated for the first seven years and then laid off for seven until now. He just had to come back because it is so much fun. He knows over half of the artists and the quests at the auction in the evening. He grew up on the edge of Devou Park at Breckinridge and Montague Rd. He used to hang out at the museum when he was ten spending everyday up there with Mr. Crawford. Now Tom has found a way to give something to the museum but not to give everything. Tom worked from 8AM to 3:30 on the detailed painting on top and then using the paint of his palette and the knowledge of painting the detailed painting to produce a smaller impasto knife painting at bottom. The work has all the sophistication of the larger work and even sold at auction for a normal auction price of $350. Also when Tom was growing up he would hang out at the clubhouse. He was too small to caddie but none the less would hang out there. He never learned to play golf until he was thirty. He and his brother used to play a dirty trick on the first hole tee. The balls would disappear over the hill after the first drive and they would go get the ball and then sell it at the clubhouse before the players would get wise. They eventually got caught. Now the Harlan Strong Golf Outing takes place on the second Saturday in September. 140 golfers get out on the course by 7:30AM shotgun style and play best ball. It's a quick 18 holes rounding up with a steak dinner at noon. There's a waiting list. It the biggest golf outing at Devou. |
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