Paintings Group • 5
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Title: Philadelphia Eugenie Davis
Sub Text: Philadelphia Eugenie Davis had attained the age of 12 years. Now time slowed for her and here in the midst of the war she found herself swimming through life without a father, lost to combat and a mother, given up to pneumonia. The enormity of her trials washed over her and crashed on the distant shore ahead. She sat in her chair firmly planted while her heart bobbed about crossing the wake of other swimmers and ships that crossed her path. Spring became fall. The ducks in the creek by their house swam backward and paddled in a whirlpool that spun counter-clockwise. The croaking of the frogs was slow and reversed and caterpillars rolled across the ground instead of crawling. Everything in Philadelphia’s life had seemed to stop then her world was moving past her in the wrong direction. The leaves of the trees were turning, the clouds made the skies grayer and the sun was lower in the sky. The only thing that grounded her was the flowering cherry tree that her parents had planted when she was born. She knew it was her parents way of letting her know they were watching over her. She would stay on the farm with her grandparents, care for the cherry tree and keep her memories alive. The reversals were temporary - the ducks would begin to swim in the right direction and the sun would move back into its proper path. Category: Painting Date of Work: January 2011 Size Framed: 16” x 16” Size Unframed: 13” x 13” Medium: Gouache, Watercolor, Pencil and Acrylic metallic Substrate: Gessoed wood panel Collection - Elizabeth and Eddie Moultrie |
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Title: Franklin Pierce
Sub Text: Even in a heart of good appearance, unconscious inhumanity requires eventual rectitude. The piper's price is always that which is dearest. Category: Painting Date of Work: 1997 Size Framed: Size Unframed: 20"x20" Medium: Acrylic and collage Substrate: Canvas Further Information: Pierce's young son was killed in a train accident while traveling with his parents. The grief stayed with him for life and it's said he drank too much to escape. As president he supported and pushed through Congress, the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. This action repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, enabling Kansas to become a slave state. He believed that the Constitution supported involuntary servitude. Available |
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Title: Rae Jean and Mavis - Different Directions
Sub Text: Rae Jean remembered her mama's birthday pies, always apple. They sat cooling in the window while she and Mavis played in the yard of their mountain home. At some point Rae Jean stepped out of the frame of that life. Mavis dreamt of worlds beyond, but kept her desires in check. Category: Painting Date of Work: 1997 Size Framed: 23.25" x 23.25" Size Unframed: 20" x 20" Medium: Acrylic on canvas Further Information: Figures from a photograph by Paul Buchanan Donated to Coulter Hampton Foundation |
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Title: Richard Allen Went For To Be A Sailor
Poetry or Literary Inclusion: The spirits of your fathers shall start from every wave, For the deck it was their field of fame, And ocean was their grave: Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell, Your manly hearts shall glow, As ye sweep through the deep, While stormy winds do blow; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow. From Ye Mariners of England by Thomas Campbell Date of Work: 1997 Size Framed: 23.25" x 23.25" Size Unframed: 20" x 20" Medium: Acrylic on canvas Collection • Elizabeth and Eddie Moultrie, Atlanta |
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Title: Lilith by any other name...
Sub Text: The Lady doth seem what she is not. Disguised in laces and blush surely the bee would seek her lip for sweetness, her eye for its sparkle and her cheek for the rose in it. Nay, born of fetid vapours, putrid excretions and acrid smokes from the devil’s fires this putrescent hag employs a pretty masque to cloak her pretense, her careful scheme to twist and pinch, puncture, crush and bind her prey. To squeeze and drain the victim of its will and life. Like unto a succubus, this lascivious demon is company to incubi, witches, the devil himself and all manner of vile spirits that populate the underworld. Her craft is arcane and evil and she is accomplished in its application. Taken in by her diversion and guile many allow, even further her cruel talents by looking away and beyond the truth. Evil mandated and perpetuated by sloth and much indifference. The “trio of angles” will find her - Sanvi, Sansanvi and Semangelaf. Category: Painting Date of Work: January 2011 Size Framed: Size Unframed: 8 1/4” x 9” Medium: Gouache, Watercolor, Pencil and Colored Pencil Substrate: Prepared plywood panel Further Information: From an unidentified source - Lilith and the trio of angels, Sanvi, Sansanvi and Semangelaf - The legend and lore surrounding Lilith is something that I have studied for a long time. When researching religious history, there aren't many women that can compare with her in regards to her wrath, seductive powers and variations of existence. Most claim that she was the first wife of Adam and left him after she refused to be submissive whilst in the act of sexual intercourse. One of the most popular myths about her is that when she left the Garden of Eden she fled to the Red Sea, made a pact with Satan and bore him a son. After seeing the power that the child had, she spawned with demons and produced a tremendous amount of offspring. Adam told God that he wished for another companion but God decided to give Lilith one last chance to return to Adam. The ultimatum was delivered by three angels, Sanvi, Sansanvi and Semangelaf [in the Talmud they are called Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof]. If she returned to him, all would be forgotten. Lilith, enraged and offended, swore that she would never bow before a man. God destroyed all her children, including the 'first son' sired by Satan, God then created Eve as a subordinate to Adam whereas Lilith was created as an equal. Collection of the Artist |