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"Second Skull First Lady" Drawing

→ Shelton Walsmith, United States

Drawing, Charcoal on Paper

24 W x 19 H in

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$2,690

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Image is 16 x 21" paper is 19 x 24". The fragility of life and the mystery of existence in metaphysical meditation. The vivid bird in oil doesn't integrate with the charcoal skull, they exist on separate planes as if the bird were collage on instead of painted. Symbolizing the relic of human experi...

Year Created:

2025

Subject:

Mediums:

Drawing, Charcoal on Paper

Rarity:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

24 W x 19 H x 0.1 D in

Ready to Hang:

No

Frame:

Not Framed

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Certificate is Included

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Shelton Walsmith

About the Artist

Shelton Walsmith

United States

"Despite strident efforts to paint the smallness of birds monuments persist. " SW

website: shelton walsmith dot com

Published by The Paris Review, Knopf, Vintage, Rizzoli Books, Paris Vogue, Pomegranate London, Aedra Fine Arts, Denver Quarterly,
Shots Magazine, Harper Collins, The New York Times and others.
Exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Prague, St.Thomas and Austin.
His most recent one man shows was at sevenminusseven gallery In the US Virgin Islands.

Personal interests; weather patterns, the inner life of trees, limes, irrationality, filigreed space, tequila, the middle ages, muay thai boxing, kittens, puppies, red wine, French New Wave cinema, sharp knives, lengths of twine rolled into balls for kittens to rut and nuzzle, cowboy britches, comedy jokes, rosemary short bread, blue moons, red squares, purple rain, carrot juice, my bidet, interiors, monumentality, audit remediation, the direction up.

profile pic: Smiling Faces collage 2023

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  • Artist featured in a collection

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