Click Here to Learn About Commissioning a Portrait Every portrait is special to the client, one painted and the artist. It’s the artist’s job to make the portrait desirable to all three. Just about anything is possible for Tom in the way of portraiture. Charcoal, watercolor and oil portraits can be done quickly if necessary.

Recent Child Portraits

Rob Portman, Oil on board, 12" x 16", April 24, 2008
Commercial Real Estate Developers Power Breakfast
Thursday, April 24, 2008 at the Duke Energy Center Grand Ballroom, Rob Portman was the key note speaker at the Cincinnati Business Courier's seventh annual Commercial Real Estate Developers Power Breakfast. Rob Portman is one of Cincinnati's favorite political sons who is on Sen. John McCain's short list of vice presidential running mate candidates. Portman talked about our three-state region's most powerful connection, trade as well as took questions about today's political climate and issues and his future. Also in attendance, Ky. Sec. of State Trey Grayson who provided a south-of-the-Ohio River view.

Richard T Farmer, Oil on board, 12" x 16", April 18th, 2008
Richard Farmer, Founder & Chairman of the Board of Cintas Corporation spoke at Xavier University on April 18th, 2008 as part of the Distinguished Speakers Series. All were welcome to hear his talk, "10 Important Experiences Over 50 Years in Business. "

Herb Feldman, oil on canvas,

Tom Lohre & AG Lafley, Chairman & CEO of Proctor & Gamble with his portrait. http://tomlohre.com/lafley.htm

A.G. Lafley enjoyed hearing of Tom's painting robot and thought it played well to his new book: "The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth With Innovation." Later Tom's painting robot produced a work derived from Mr. Lafley's image shown to the left of the photo above.

Cincinnati Museum Center, 8" x 10", oil on canvas, October 14th, 2005 “Cincinnati Museum Center”. The  center is the old Union Train Terminal. Tom worked in the famous rotunda in front of one of the machines that turns a penny into a souvenir. The little girl is Tom's daughter.

Dick Foster, 16" x 20", oil on canvas, 1989

Mr. McIntosh, 30" x 40", oil on canvas, 1980

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B Thomas Lohre Senior digital file done in Illustrator

C Miss Page, Oil on canvas Painted from the original by Frank Duveneck during Tom's education days painting copies at Art Museums. Any painting can be copied.

D Tim Kinduell, Oil on canvas Painted quite rapidly on the rooftop of Tom's New York City Apartment. A painting like this makes a great gift for a party where Tom can work during the party finishing the work the same evening.

E Vicky, Red Charcoal on white paper, 12" 16" Drawn from life over the periods of a few days having the sitter sit for ten minutes each day.

F Ahab, watercolor on paper, 5" x 7" Painted for a man who collects MAD magazines. Tom took the original Mort Drucker panel from the MAD parody of "Moby Dick" and put the collector into it.

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A Annie Milburn, Oil on canvas, 30" x 40" Painted from life over a summer.

B Peggy Lohre, 20" x 16", Oil on canvas Tom's mother painted from life over the periods of a few days.

C Helen, Oil on brass Painted on a 1-1/2" brass medallion

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A Captain Kirk, 30" x 40", oil on canvas, 1980

B Maenad, 16" x 20", three color silkscreen, 1984

Created using a novel plate making process. The digital file was created in Illustrator then the plates were printed as a titled laser print on acetate then assembled and silk screened.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A dancing maenad. This is a Greek statuette from the 3rd century BC. It was made in TarantoIn Greek mythology, Maenads were the female followers of Dionysus, the most significant members of the Thiasus, the retinue of Dionysus. Their name literally translates as "raving ones". Often the maenads were portrayed as inspired by him into a state of ecstatic frenzy, through a combination of dancing and drunken intoxication.In this state, they would lose all self control, begin shouting excitedly, engage in uncontrolled sexual behavior, and ritualistically hunt down and tear animals (and sometimes men and children) to pieces, devouring the raw flesh. During these rites, the maenads would dress in fawn skins\and carry a thyrsus, a long stick wrapped in ivy or vine leaves and tipped by a pine cone, weave ivy-wreaths around their heads, and often handle or wear snakes

C Tom in Clown Face, 8" x 10", oil on canvas, 1989

United Press International Your face in a masterpiece

Pick any painting in the Cincinnati Art Museum and Tom will paint your face in it.

Lemony Snicket, 12" x 16", oil on board, spring 2008. Painted from a photograph. David Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, made an appearance at the public library in Cincinnati and Tom's daughter and he went down to get his signature and listen to his lecture. He patiently signed and stamped persons book. David wrote thirteen books in the series of unfortunate events.

Nuclear War, 20" x 16", oil on canvas, 2006

This one color oil painting on an 8" x 10" gessoed masonite board was painted from the supplied photo.

The Merchants Wife

Copy from the original by Thomas Lawrence in the MET

A student work of Tom painted in 1977.