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viewpoints, and it's kind of a remake of crossroads done much later, about 1971, about 5-6 years later. Next. Well that's one of the ones that wouldn't drop down. Oh there we are, Black Dog. It's strange how a painting projects your future. This is of a Australian Cattle Dog, and the same breed is this noble beast that's standing up here at the rostrum with me. I knew nothing about them, I just took this little ad in the paper of a marvelous looking dog, so I painted it. And low and behold, several of these dogs came into my life. Next. This is a painting that is in the San Francisco Museum of Art collection. They show it quite often, the kids like it a lot. They put it on a post card, it's called Country Gentlemen, done about middle 70s, done about '72 I think. Next. Friends of a Concentric Nature. This is of course a return to inside outside, outside inside idea. Next.

Return to Bovine Park. And my dog Rot II. Actually Peppy is in a way Rot II's widow. He's looking directly into a rose, and there's a cow in the background. Next. Trouble in the Bovine Quarter. Again the inside outside concept. These are, usually I paint from 5 to 6,7 feet. There's all fairly large. I have some slides of a recent exhibition, and you'll be able to determine the relative size. Next. Inside [inaudible]. Against related to that inside outside theme. Next. This is kind of an exposé painting, Inside the Bowl. Next. Sporting Comrades. It's inspired by George Stubbs, the great 18th - 19th century painter of animals, marvelous painter. Next. One fairly large for that period, this is about 6 x 8, it's called On The Sea Wall, and it's a painting that sort of got away from me. Next. Now we're getting to about 1980, and it's a painting of my studio, part of the plumbing in my studio. Next. This is Mr. and Mrs. Tough, and my dog Rot II is in the stern there, writing directions. Next. On the Bowl. Next. OK, I referred to this exprerience in my life, the event of the giant rabbits, and I also told you that the Pima Indian Fred and I acquired a giant rabbit bunny, and this is a motel back there near Albuquerque, with my dog Rot II, and already he's damn near as big as Rot II. And Rot II is about 3 times as big as Peppy, he's a fair sized dog. He's about like Fiber, maybe a little bigger, and this rabbit was getting up there then. We kept him for six months and then he broke away, he just broke right through a door one day [laughter] and took right off. We chased him in our jeep for about 10 miles, but then he stepped it up over the rocks to 30 miles and hour and we broke and axel [laugher]. Next.

Now, this painting is called Hunting for the Dangerous Hunters. That isn't the title, that's a loose paraphrase. I had an interesting experience, it's one of  the painting I'm very fond of. The theme here is that we're reversing the things, and we're going to go out and hunt hunters. And it's a good crew to do that. I showed this painting on television. I went for the Contained Cooperation in Memphis Tennessee, and I've shown it on TV among some other slides, and I told this story, hunting the hunters, and reversing the whole thing, and I got to the airport, and I looked out, and there was some guys in red hats and keeps and four wheel drives chasing the airplane, and shooting at us, but we got off into the air, luckily. One of the major ideas about my painting, about painting is that the ideas of species prejudices that we have. Next. Now this is called Listening for the song of the morning room. Again, the plumbing in the studio, gives you an idea of the scale of the painting, that pipes about 6 inches in diameter. Next. Out West. There's a great deal of texture on this painting. Hopefully you can see that. For some reason or other, it's a major factor in my painting, probably comes out of my cooking concept, you know, cake decorating. Next. An older painting that I have a slide now that I didn't have, it's called On Troubled Waters. Next.

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