30"x30"
oil paint on canvas
2009

The original source photo is from the work of Dorothea Lange when she was commissioned by the farmers association to travel through the midwest and take photos of the many shack towns and other travelers trying to make a living through the Depression. Most were traveling out west in hopes of a better life.

40"x40"
Oil paint on canvas
2010

Painting based on the photos by Dorothea Lange. These boys are traveling out west with their entire family.

30"x30"
Oil and Acrylic Paint on canvas
2010

Based on original photos by Dorothea Lange under a grant from the Farmers Association in the 1930's. Image is of family moving to California with all of their belongings on a flat bed truck.
started painting with a little bit of airbrush, finished in oils

30"x30"
oil on canvas
2010

Original photo by Dorothea Lange.
This image was painted from a matching image to the most famous photo of the time, "Migrant Mother"

Oil Paint on Canvas
30"x30"
2010

Original photo is by Dorothea Lange of a boy working through some barley or other grain to put into his work sack. The bag has a few words on it, but the one word that stands out on the very front is "worth". To me, this meant that the worth of this person can be seen in his hands. This was representative of the entire Great Depression and the struggle to clamber out of that state of the nation.

20"x20"
Oil paint on canvas and acrylic on PVC.
2011

She knows her own strength. An African American woman building a bomber plane in 1941.

Oil Paint on wood panel & acrylic on PVC
20"x20"
2011

Sister painting to "Strength"
Original from 1940's, woman riveting a bomber plane.

30"x30"
Oil on Canvas
2011

Original photo of a railroad worker in Chicago in 1940's

30"x30"
Oil Paint on Canvas
2014

Photographer Dorothea Lange herself. Original photo by Paul S. Taylor, 1934