"Journeys Begin"
Note from the Webweaver:
I was contacted in 2002 via email by the owner of this painting,
GKW of Arizona, who has given his kind permission to post an image of it at
this site. This oil painting had been in his family for seventy years, and
he was trying to find out more information about it and the artist. His grandfather,
"found the painting in the trash sometime in the early 30's; he carefully
wrapped it in some burlap and cardboard and carried it home, along with his
toolbox, on the street car in Chicago." He added, "As a child, I
always thought the young people in the painting were my grandma and grandpa!"
It is possibly an illustration for a magazine or book, but I have no concrete
information about it at this time.
They sat down together on the newly-scrubbed steps.
"Jim, if I married you there wouldn't be no Egypt nor
anything like that in our young lives," she said gravely.
Dimensions: 20" x 24"
The following paper is taped to the back of the canvas, in my grandfather's
handwriting:
