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Shakesthecoffecan:
I have seen the fuscia, and it looks like pepto-bismol.
Shakesthecoffecan:
--- Quote from: wdj on July 01, 2006, 10:27:04 pm ---Hey shakes! Just droppin by to say howdy - we're up in the mountains and i only get the phone line for a couple of minutes ::) ::)
Hope you're having a good evening - talk w/ya over the weekend sometime I hope!! :) :)
--- End quote ---
Hey Bud, at least you got a phone line. My folks were on a party line until 1985.
You have a good weekend. Pass me the bottle.
Shakesthecoffecan:
Lets do it:
http://messages.movies.yahoo.com/Movies/Films/threadview?bn=12172484-hv1808403312f0&tid=39583&mid=39583&tof=1&m=tm&rt=2
Shakesthecoffecan:
Joe told me on the phone about the mural in the Riverton, Wyoming Post Office. When I found the picture of it he had posted I was floored. There, about the time they would have been born, was Jack and Ennis, tending the sheep.
Annie Proulx does not mention in her essay ever visiting the post office or seeing the mural. We do know the production crew traveled thru the area scouting location and getting a feel for the place. Perhaps someone of them saw this, and it galvanized the characters appearence in their minds.
But what if none of the above happened?
According to http://www.wpamurals.com/wyoming, the artist was one George Vander Sluis, who acording to other sources lived 1915-1984. Askart.com says of him:
"George Vander Sluis was a painter in acrylics of figure, portrait and landscape, a muralist, and an art educator, who spent much of his career in Syracuse, New York. There he was a Professor of Painting and Drawing at Syracuse University beginning 1947. Between 1940 and 1942, and 1945 to 1947, he was a teacher at the Colorado Fine Arts Center in Colorado Springs.
He studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Colorado Fine Arts Center and from 1951 to 1952, had a Fulbright Scholarship."
A google image search turns up many posters and other works by him. I am real curious as to what his life was like, how he came to Riverton, Wyoming to paint a mural in a post office.
Wayne:
The mural really is stunning.
So so much
was
stunning
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