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ILLUSTRATED MAPS

     Here are a few of my hand-painted original maps and editorial illustrations for books and magazines including National Geographic, The New Yorker, Smithsonian, Harper’s, Audubon, Outside, and others. 225 of my original illustrated maps are in the collection of the Map and Atlas Museum in La Jolla, California and will eventually be permanently housed at The Library of Congress. My hand-painted maps and paintings can also be found in private, corporate, and museum collections throughout the world.
Please contact me for samples of many other maps.

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The New Yorker

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National Geographic

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Sail Magazine

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Tampa Bay History Center

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Smithsonian

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Texas Monthly

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Outside Magazine

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Mount Vernon

 

 

FALLING

 

When I was a boy of five or maybe six, I was in the woods behind our house when I saw a mourning dove fall suddenly from the sky and hit the ground hard. I got close enough to see its heart pounding and I remember my own heart was beating just as fast. I could see the pale rose color of its breast and the gray and cream colors of its wings. I stood as still as I could and watched and waited. The light faded and the woods went silent. The wind died and I thought the dove had died too. It got dark and yet the bird didn’t move. Finally, I reached down to pick it up and it exploded in a thunder of wings and vanished into the night sky. That memory, the moment that bird left me standing alone in those dark woods, has stayed with me all my life - more than stayed with me - it has haunted me and has many times over the years entered my dreams. I think of these paintings as markers of memory and mourning for each individual bird, split second moments of time, stopped forever on canvas as these wondrous beings fall one by one to earth and sea. Most of these paintings are a trinity of bird, sky, and earth or sea, but in some the bird is falling through a vast emptiness of sky and you can only sense the presence of earth or sea somewhere far below. Now these years later the memory of that dove has become the basis for these paintings in my Falling Series.

​​Scroll down to see examples and please contact me for the few available works in this series:

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Falling Mourning Dove

​Acrylic on canvas

60 x 48 inches

Falling Night Heron

Acrylic on canvas

48 x 40 inches

Falling Arctic Tern

Acrylic on canvas

40 x 30 inches

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Falling Snowy Egret

Acrylic on canvas

40 x 30 inches

Falling Great Blue Heron

Acrylic on canvass

40 x 30 inches

Falling Gannet

Acrylic on canvas

56 x 48 inches

Falling Green Woodpecker

Acrylic on canvass

40 x 30 inches

Falling Eurasian Jay

Acrylic on canvass

30 x 24 inches

Falling Razorbill

Acrylic on canvas

30 x 24 inches

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