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Two children a shabbily dressed boy and girl are sitting on a box in the back yard of an apartment in the city. The boy is leaning a gainst a wooden fence which seperates them from the neighbor's yard. The girl is sitting up and like the boy is staring ahead of them. To the left of the children is a garden enclosed by a crudely made wooden fence. Across the garden hangs a cloths line full of freshly laundered clothing. Above the children, on the second storey of the building is a freshly painted advertizement for Orange Crush. Oil on canvas 36 by 30 inches. $900.00 copyright 2011

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Lajo Cymbalski 14 Mar 2012

Your work is well worth while buying and collecting. I hope to see more of your work over the months to come

Artist Reply: I am glad you like my work. I have been doing a couple of murals the last couple of months which has held me back on my paintings. I currently have 5 new paintings in process a couple of which should be finished soon. Again thanks for your comments.

Vernonette Gaddy 02 Jun 2011

Stunning and powerful painting, and sadly-so very realistic. I am a city resident, and unfortunately, I see these neighborhood images frequently when I travel to a lot of inner city schools where I substitute teach.

Artist Reply: I am glad you like my work. I believe art should say something, which is what I try to do. Art can change societies, and has in the past. Check out a painting called "Found Drowned" by an english painter who lived in victorian London. Many unmarried women who became pregnant would commit suicide by jumping into the Thames. Society at the time thought that that was the fate they deserved for their moral failure. In the Times of London there would be a daily column entitled "Found Drowned" where they would list those they pulled out of the Thames. This painters painting resulted in changing the attitude of victorians toward such "fallen women". Art is NOT visual muzak!

Emily Reed 25 Jan 2011

What a wonderful charming painting!

Sharon Gonzalez 24 Jan 2011

FANTASTIC PAINTING, CECIL.