Pilate' Wife
Yvonne Herd - Pastel on Paper ” 1961
29” x 24”
At age thirteen, this was my first pastel outside of Mr. Bruns’ art class. It was inspired by “She Stands Alone”, a fictional love story about Pilate’s Wife. I purchased the book for a dime in a wonderful book-filled room above an antique shop near Coffee Street in our town of Greenville, SC. I believe there is a Jazz Club in that location now. In the fall of 1961, it won a blue ribbon at the Greenville County Fair.
Pilate's Wife
Oil on Canvas
1977
This is the first painting that I did after I decided it was impossible for me to quit painting. It was also the last painting that Mr. Bruns critiqued for me before his death in 1977. It is based on the first pastel that I painted independently outside his class when I was thirteen.
Joshua..... .............Jonathan............................. Joseph
Our Three Sons 1986
Images from K-4
Hope
Pastel on Paper
1989
Detail From The Ballet Dancer
Private Collection
1980's
The Engagement
Early Commission 1980's
It would be interesting to me to see how I would approach the preceding portraits today.
Beautiful Friend Oil on panel 1996 Modern Madonna Oil on panel 1997
"BudTrunick"
Desert Drama Remembered
Copper by Belt at Twin Buttes
Bud Trunick, Civil Engineer:
Mr. Trunick's specialty was and is "bulk material handling"...what an understatement!!! In material handled, the volumn at Twin Buttes was nearly twice that of the Oroville Dam project in California and ranked alongside the famous Aswan High Dam in Egypt. Bud Trunick is remembered for his participation in both the Oroville Dam with McDowell Wellman and the Twin Buttes project with Hewitt-Robins. Out in the Arizona Desert, a handshake between Trunick and Anaconda Company president, Jack Knaebel, sealed Hewitt Robbins 10,000,000.00 participation in the Twin Buttes project. In 1966 and 67, Trunick was Hewitt-Robins' estimator, salesman, engineer and site project manager.
The Hewitt-Robins complex at the south end of the Anaconda copper mining pit was engineered to move both overburden and ore, either separately or simultaneously. It was composed of two side-by- side, sixty inch conveyors that sloped to the bottom of the pit... At a little more than halfway down into the pit, two other sixty-inch conveyors split off obliquely from either side of the main conveyors. In all more than 50,000 feet of Hewitt-Robins steel cable reinforced rubber belt were employed on the mining project at Twin Buttes...Thus "Copper by Belt" as indicated on the magazine cover in Mr. Trunick's hands.
At the top of the magazine, I have dated and aged the magazine to further reference this special time period in Mr. Trunick's past. When the portrait is signed and dated 2007, it will establish that this is Mr. Trunick - forty years after Twin Buttes...As Mr. Trunick approaches his eightieth year, he continues to solve engineering problems across the country. Armed only with a calculator, graph paper, and a pencil, he and his creative mind are still in demand by others with computers and a lot more letters after their name.
Robert "Bud" Trunick
1927 - 2009
A Tribute from a Friend
Bill Zimmermann
"I learned late yesterday of my friend's passing. My last contact with him was 6 or 8 weeks ago via telephone wherein he sounded tired and frail... I felt rather helpless but vowed to find my way from Omaha to Greenville to renew our mutual interests one more time. Well, it turns out I didn't make it and still wouldn't have known the outcome except for a chance remark made by a mutual acquaintance...
I located the obituary run in the Greenville newspaper and then decided to search for your website via the Greenville artists site. In doing so, I came across the splendid painting you did of Mr.Trunick...This led me to a recent painting you did which really captured my last memory of him. He and I had flown in my Plane to a jobsite in North Carolina, where we clambered on a very large and very high Stacker. Actually, Bud should not have attempted the close inspection of the machine, but two 80 year-old engineers lack the common sense of one 40 year-old - so we both overdid that day. Bud was wearing the same hat as you show in the painting. He was a very special man in the Industry that we both chose for our life work. He had abilities that I have not seen in others. He will be missed...
This man was truly unique and the world should recognize this... Bud was very contributory to the building of the Oroville Dam....I remembered the fearlessness of Bud and his fellow Engineers in how they approached the magnitude of... {the Oroville Dam project}...
I can also locate the Stacker photo from North Carolina that Bud and I visited 2 or 3 years ago. Bud designed the machine which is quite large for a Mast Type Stacker. (This style of machine might have an artistic flair to it that you could use as background for a future painting.) It reminds me of a Suspension Bridge which so many Photographers find to be an interesting subject. This style of machine was part of Bud's first assignment at Barber-Greene in Aurora and it was one of the final machines he designed for us. When the owners in North Carolina expressed deep concern for how it would stand up to a future Hurricane, I brought Bud up to their coastal jobsite to provide Engineering reassurance. He later took a fall that day as we dismounted from the machine inspection. I vowed not to put him in that kind of jeopardy again. If I can contribute anything to his memory, please count on me to assist. " Bill Zimmermann
Jonathan
Oil On Canvas 1998
Dr. Joseph LeConte Dean Farid Sadik
First 'Dean" Of USC School of Pharmacy Currently Dean of Pharmacy
Civil War Era American University, Beirut, Lebanon
Collection of University of South Carolina Collection of University of South Carolina
Oil on Canvas-2004 Oil On Canvas 2006
" Yvonne" Self Portrait Self Portrait
Oil on Canvas 2003 Oil On Canvas 2002 Oil on Canvas 2003
Quilting Toward the Light
Going Home by Grannie Holliday MP3
Other Works
Crucifixion
Unfinished work from 1962/63?
For viewer participation:
Do you know which artist painted this originally?
Many years ago, when I was a young teenager (1962 or 63), an elderly great uncle asked me to make a painting from an old print. The great uncle and the print are both gone now and I have spent hours searching the Internet for the original artist. If you know please contact me at yha@charter.net
"Hohensalzburg" Salzburg, Austria, 1996
Inspired by a photograph from Joshua's backpacking trip through Europe