RMW Ramblings

  Bos Bison   Here is  Bos Bison  which I painted in the style of last month's  Vulpes . [ https://rmw-ramblings.blogspot.com/2026/07/vulpes.html] Together with a much earlier painting,  Equus,  (2011) they form a stylistic group.    

  Biking, Hiking, Running Three Books from the 1970s The 1970s saw a burst of books on energetic personal activities.  I was  long into bicycling, hiking, and morning runs, so I was enthusiastic over three books published that decade. The bicycle provided my geographic liberation and  teen employment in the early 1950s.  I bought a bicycle early on arrival for graduate school in Berkeley in 1960, and years later, when on an extended job remote assignment in Southern California, I bought a folding bike which I kept in the car trunk for spontaneous excursions. In 1970 Eugene Sloane's  The Complete Book of Bicycling  was issued.  It served me well when I commuted to work by bike during the energy crunch in the later '70s.     I cartooned myself in my '70s cycling.  My 1980s folding bike was a Hon, purchased at the Orange County Swap Meet, then a center of entrepreneurial upstarts. It folded compactly and fitted a carrying bag.  Ho...

  Chesapeake Fauna     For a gallery show twenty years ago, I painted a trio of Chesapeake Bay life.   Rockfish  and  Blue Crab  sold.   Yellow Perch  remained and hangs over my shoulder at my cottage desk.   Rockfish (striped bass) is my culinary favorite.  But  Yellow Perch  is my artistic preference.  

  The Tub Around 1950 The Tub, an laundromat opened at 8th & Union Sts in Wilmington  The building was modeled on the then new Bendix washing machine  I think the architect was Ellis Preston, My brst association is with the Cantina,  from here a menu image. Other restaurants have come and gone.   .  

A US Centennial Souvenir Reproduced    This postcard from 1955 reproduces "A souvenir (not a Post Card) purchased at the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876," (Text from the reverse side.)  Some of the flags are incorrect.  The flags shown for Great Britain and the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) are their royal standards not their national flags.  

  Vulpes A Mount Salem Lane neighbor has been feeding a local red fox, which now hangs around. It inspired me to do a fox painting.  I painted  Vulpes  in a classical Greek/art deco manner mimicking my 2011 painting  Equuis.   An earlier fox appeared in my 2008 painting  Reynard Regards Kaitlyn where I imagened our granddaughter and the observing fox on the Canby bench in Rockford Park. It hangs in our stairwell in a frame I built for it.