Recently I was invited by the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson to talk about a film that has influenced my work.

Baby Doll was released in 1956. Tennessee Williams wrote the screenplay. The director of the film was Elia Kazan and the stars were Carroll Baker, Karl Malden and Eli Wallach.

By chance I found the derelict Burrus house, which served as the set for the film, almost fifty years later. I made several paintings of both the interior and exterior of the house. In 2006 the entire Baby Doll Suite was exhibited at the Cheekwood Museum in Nashville. Click on Baby Doll Suite on the website home page to see the series.

This new history of Mississippi features a painting from the "Baby Doll Suite" on the dust jacket. The painting, Doorway with Column, is in the collection of Dr. Hal and LaMarr Winn.
 

Pollard Vineyard in Washington State commissioned a painting for their first label. Here is the mock up.

Robin Pollard grows her grapes near Zillah, Washington in the Yakima Valley. She lives on Vashon Island near Seattle. Robin's partner, Chris Camarda, is well know for his Andrew Will Wine.

 Earlier Andrew Will also commissioned a painting for the Sorella label.

This painting, in the collection of Eason and Ellen Leake, was included in the Mississippi Bicentennial exhibit in 2017 at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson.

Spraying the wasp nest

as I began to run

my pants fall to my ankles