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Home Available from Denman Studios Available from Astoria Fine Art Available at Special Events Available from Greenwich Workshop Limited Edition Reproductions Archive of Previous Work About the Artist Contact Galleries Purchasing Information Commission Policy News & Events Newsletter & Mailing List Facebook Links	<Back to Thumbnails "The Chinquis Three" 17 ˝ x 26” Acrylic on Board, 2006 Silver-Grey Peacock Pheasants $5,800 How to buy A great deal of credit for this painting and the similar “Goldenrod Gang,” now a part of the Leigh-Yawkey Woodson Art Museum’s permanent collection, goes to the hospitality of a charming old man in Castro Valley who has raised these and other exotic peafowl for decades. He allowed me access to his aviaries, where I spent many hours enjoying the bobbing heads, cocky gaits, and glorious plumage of his stunning birds. My primary goal in “The Chinquis Three” was to share the beauty of these amazing Silver-Grey Peacock Pheasants, or Chinquis, while addressing the process of painting itself. As they strut magnificently past the viewer, the birds shift between high realism, stylization, and abstraction, as well as stages of completion. The Silver-Grey Peacock Pheasants, with their already abstractly suggestive plumage, look rather “unreal” to begin with, making them ideal candidates for exploring this nexus of the objective and the subjective.
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