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Ruthie's Red - 8" x 8" Original acrylic painting on cradled wood panel - Dust Bowl Glimpses series

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Ruthie's Red - 8" x 8" Original acrylic painting on cradled wood panel - Dust Bowl Glimpses series
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Ruthie's Red - 8" x 8" Original acrylic painting on cradled wood panel - Dust Bowl Glimpses series Ruthie's Red - 8" x 8" Original acrylic painting on cradled wood panel - Dust Bowl Glimpses series Ruthie's Red - 8" x 8" Original acrylic painting on cradled wood panel - Dust Bowl Glimpses series Ruthie's Red - 8" x 8" Original acrylic painting on cradled wood panel - Dust Bowl Glimpses series Ruthie's Red - 8" x 8" Original acrylic painting on cradled wood panel - Dust Bowl Glimpses series
The colors of young Ruthie Joad’s world ranged from faded denims and soiled flesh to endless hues of brown. But that all changed when the rains finally came. The landscape was now littered with lush greens and vivid wildflowers. Ruthie grew particularly fond of red geraniums. They were now known as "Ruthie’s Red".

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Original painting from my Dust Bowl Glimpses series
8" x 8" x 1"
Acrylics on birch plywood cradled panel with protective UVLS polymer varnish topcoat
Wash of titanium white on sides (wood grain peeks through)
Wired for hanging
Titled and signed on back

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I will carefully wrap your painting in wax paper + eco-friendly tissue paper and ship it via USPS. DOMESTIC orders will be sent via Priority Mail Flat Rate with Insurance. INTERNATIONAL orders will be sent First Class Mail International.

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About my Dust Bowl Glimpses paintings:

The idea for this series came to me last summer after reading John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer-prize winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath, and helping my mother digitize a photo collection of her ancestors who homesteaded on the prairies of Kansas and Colorado in the early 1900s. I came away from both experiences with a much greater understanding of the human condition during the Great Depression, specifically of those families displaced by the Dust Bowl.

My paintings are dedicated to the impoverished people who, despite hardship, extended a hand to help strangers because it was the human thing to do.

Thank you so very much for looking.
Cheers, Mandy

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© 2011 Weathered Silo LLC + Mandy Behrens. Thank you for respecting the hard work and creativity that I've invested in my work.


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