jennifercyr AFC Member
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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 7:26 am Post subject: Moments In Time Captured On Canvas |
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Des Plaines artist Steven Gerard Wagner has three oil paintings featured in "Reflecting Terre Haute", an exhibit at the Swope Museum in Terre Haute. Cheap Oil Painting
Wagner is a member of the Des Plaines Art Guild. He is a lifelong artist focusing his creativity on oil painting, etching/traditional cooperplate printing, silverpoint drafting and sculpting. Animal Oil Painting He is a graduate of the University of Illinois and the Defense Language Institute. An Army veteran, he served overseas in Turkey.One was a horserace. Building Oil Painting A woman is caught up in the flowing mane of the racehorse about to win what the old Terre Hautians called the "Futurity" at the world-famous square racetrack in Terre Haute. The second is a magical moment with the Terre Haute Madstone, which Abe Lincoln placed on his son's bite from a rabid dog. Cusine Oil Painting The third is a double portrait, marking the entrance of women into the military stage. Perhaps one of the first WAACs was Ruth Mary Martin. Cottages Oil Painting She salutes the Paris traveler, Janet Flanner, from Indianapolis, who stated during the darkest depths of World War II "when France fell, part of Terre Haute fell!" |
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