Good morning my favorite small humans!
Today is the Tuesday after Memorial Day, and I’ll be in Florida to help Gram-E unpack boxes in just a few days! I am extremely excited! J
I’m going to have to keep it short this week, because since I’m taking a vacation day on Friday and yesterday was a day off, I have an AWFUL lot to get done…but I chose a piece of art that goes with Memorial Day to show you this time.
Lee Teter is an American artist who does historical paintings. The one I’m attaching is probably his most famous. What I think is incredibly cool about Lee is that to help him become a great historical painter, he spent a lot of years living without modern conveniences…he stayed in a tiny cabin in the mountains and rode a horse for transportation…in the 1960s and 70s, which wasn’t all that long ago and awesome things like cars and central heating were certainly available if he had wanted them! I would not do well without modern conveniences – especially the water heater (I love hot showers!) and air conditioning in the summer.
Lee is also well known for burning a lot of his paintings that he doesn’t think turn out well. That’s kind of interesting. We all have projects that don’t work out quite right – I tend to paint over mine so I can re-use the canvases, but a lot of people hang on to their “bad” stuff and it clutters up their lives something awful…so I respect that he just gets rid of the things that don’t make him happy and think that’s very smart.
This is his painting “Vietnam Reflections” (although it’s not a very good picture of it – I couldn’t find a really clear one to copy in). It shows a man standing in front of the Vietnam memorial, which is in Washington D.C. and has the names of the American soldiers who died in the Vietnam War. The reflection in the memorial are his friends who didn’t make it home. I think it’s incredibly beautiful and it’s important that we remember that we get to have a day off to have fun and celebrate with our friends and family on Memorial Day because a lot of good men and women serve in our military to help keep us free!
I hope you had a wonderful Memorial Day, and I’m sure I’ll see you for a bit this weekend!
Love you tons, and know that I think you’re awesome.
Auntie Paula
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