Taiwan Pavillion Print

Sitting peacefully on Strawberry Hill in Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park is the Taiwan Pavilion, a gift from Taipei, Taiwan. (Also referred to as the Chinese Pavilion.) The artist and his family often rowed around the island as a fun and serene activity. This beautiful structure nestled among the trees on the little man-made island enchanted the artist and he captured it with a background of fog. Having grown up in San Franciso and living there most of his life, he became quite good at capturing the often present mist that added an air of mystery to serene beauty to things the fog surrounded. Interestingly, this painting was stored in a box, unframed, for years when it was rediscovered about 15 years ago. It has become a personal favorite of Leonard's wife. *** Leonard was born and raised in San Francisco and spent most of the first 45 years of his life living and working there. You could say that the city is in his blood. In 2010, he returned to painting some scenes of San Francisco, a genre in which he had often worked back in the 1980s. The beauty of the city, especially when shrouded in fog, has long lured his artist's eye. Many of the places he painted were places he had explored on his bicycle as a young boy and later frequented as an adult.