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Fool Moon Over Half Dome

Steve Justice Painting Title: Fool Moon Over Half Dome SOLD Material: oil on canvas Size: 56x72 Year: 1990 “We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through the fabric of illusion.” -- Ansel Adams “Fool Moon” is a colorization of a classic Ansel Adams subject, with a remark on our misguided environmental attitudes.Title: Fool Moon Over Half Dome
Material: oil on canvas
Size: 56×72
Year: 1990 SOLD

We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through the fabric of illusion.     – Ansel Adams

“Fool Moon” is a colorization of a black-and-white Ansel Adams subject, with red added to turn my own painting into a comment on our misguided environmental attitudes.

This painting once went missing with ten others when the owner of the gallery where they were showing had to flee creditors.  I’d rented a truck to remove and ship home my paintings, but I found the gallery padlocked and bare.  After receiving an anonymous phone tip later that same day, I located the paintings in the basement of a local restaurant, with one painting broken in half and this one punctured clear through.  I ultimately repaired and sold both.  Months later I bumped into the gallerist again, only he had gone to extremes to alter his appearance by growing a goatee, wearing glasses, and re-shaping his hairline – he was now bald on the top of his head with the world’s worst comb-over.

We all have our sad vanities to pursue.  Or avoid.

 

 

 

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