Since 2010 I have participated in "Lake Oswego Reads." It gives me the opportunity to meet many esteemed novelists and is my favorite annual local artists event.
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
The Interpreter
14"x11" Acrylic
Alexander Upshaw was described as loyal, intelligent, hard working, married to a white woman, disrespected, and "perfectly educated and absolutely uncivilized." This portrait was inspired by the physical duality he struggled with in his short lifetime. Educated and versed in English he traditionally wore white man's clothing as he fought for his tribe's survival against the opposing efforts to rid the native populations of their customary lives. His untimely death in a prison cell at the age of 38 devastated Curtis in late 1909.