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miles from the other drawing of the Ruby Mountains with the Basque sheepherder, and there are some incredible kind of rocks and precipices and craggy formations. [laughter] You owe yourself a trip [laughter]. Oh don't laugh, some of you have been, you know, I'm coming out to New England, and some of you who have been here all your life should take a trip to some of these spots, they're remarkable. Next. Ok, this is of course part of that equestrian series, one of the more successful ones I think. Next. I just threw this in because it's one of the drawings, I don't even remember when it was done or what it represents or anything.[laughter]

Next.  OK, this is a drawing, I've always framed my own things and this is an earlier frame style.  A little canoe drawing.  Next.  Now we're getting into the late drawings, and they go up in double size, now they're about 30 x 40, and this is a kind of a canine drawing with some attempts to make peace with the circles, and triangles, and squares artist.  Next.

I really think my figurative impulses have been greatly moderated by a more or less abstract conception of generating the figurative image.  I think they work best when they are a kind of cross breed between absolute, some mathematical geometry, and expressionism in figuration.  Next.  Now this is one of the late frames, and a late drawing.  It deals actually with some people taking a local native boat away from the island of the Druids, and as they paddle away, the music of the Druids is in the background.

Next.  Another drawing.  It's actually about a couple of years old, it's from a show in Chicago.  Next.  It's a recent drawing, someone striding over the Western landscape with his little dog.  A dog looks somewhat like Peppy.  Next.  This is a drawing from a show in Chicago that took place a couple of years ago.  Next.  This is a drawing of the highlands of Scotland, and the people that live there. [laughter]  This one deals with bilateral symmetry, the music, what kinds of lines you can make, that kind of thing.  Sort of doodling, a big doodle.  Next.  This is a kind of Scottish Rites drawing.  Next.  You see a couple of drawings on the wall in an exhibition, gives you sort of an idea of what they look like.  Sometimes I think that when you see slides, you don't really get any idea of what the painting looks like on a wall, or the drawing on the wall.

Next.  I did a whole series of airplane drawings, and this is one of the experiments from the 30s, in 1932 there was a lot more variety in airplane construction than now.  Next.  Certain parts of the world, the dog has a religious significance.  Next.

Oh, just you kind of draw just to entertain yourself.  In fact, one of my theories about art is that one should always try to entertain oneself, because if you can't entertain yourself, sure as hell can't entertain anybody else.  Next.  Up around Eugene Oregon, during about 1938, '40s, thee was a man called Leslie Longster, and he ran an airfield, and he designed a whole series of home built airplanes called the Longsters, so I tried to so some Longster airplanes.  A little drawing using some airbrush and some other materials.  Next.  Now this is a portrait of a California ceramic artist, Robert Ratey, and I transferred him to a dog and I think I catch the essence of him.  Next.  Now this is a running man, a strider, I did a series of striders, I was going to do some strider sculpture, but I never got around to it.  Next.  This is a fairly date drawing.  Next.  I don't exactly know the meaning of this drawing, I did at one time, but I don't anymore.  This is another of the Druid drawings, it reminds me of Brigadoon, the musical drama.  Next. A man walking his dog.  Next.  This of course, is the Beach Boys [laughter].  Any one of my more