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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 "Upward Mobility" 26.5 x 10.5" Acrylic on Board, 2011 Squirrel Monkey $3,800 SOLD How to buy I've loved Squirrel Monkeys ever since Indiana Jones' sidekick monkey scuttled on screen in Stephen Spielberg's "Raiders of the Lost Arc" when I was a child. Primates are a wonderful subject for animal painters, supplying fertile ground for explorations of emotion and expression not always afforded artists like myself who generally try to avoid anthropomorphisation. I encountered this particular subject at the Oakland Zoo in Oakland, CA. His movements, at once spry and hesitant, conveyed a sense of fragility I sought to capture in this painting. The tall, linear composition, abundance of negative space, and downcast eyes of the monkey all serve to convey this sense of delicate tension.
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