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
It would be interesting to me to see how I would approach the preceding portraits today.
1980's
Beautiful Friend
Oil on Panel 1996
Modern Madonna
Oil On panel 1997
"BudTrunick"
(See Works in Progress )
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. Note: I may expand on this as I continue to work on the portrait and learn more about Mr. Trunick.
Artist Note: After struggling for thirty minutes trying to write Desert Drama on the magazine cover, I realized, I had written "Dessert Drama" and had to start over....That not quite as bad as the six toes that I painted on a goddess in a Botticelli Reproduction ...not once but twice.
Jonathan
Oil On Canvas 1998
Dr. Joseph LeConte
First 'Dean" Of USC School of Pharmacy
Civil War Era
Collection of University of South Carolina
Oil on Canvas-2004
Dean Farid Sadik
(Currently Dean of Pharmacy
American University, Beirut, Lebanon)
Collection of University of South Carolina
Oil On Canvas 2006
" Yvonne"
Oil on Canvas 2003
Self Portrait
Oil On Canvas 2002
Self Portrait
Oil on Canvas 2003
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