"Rose of Haiti" c. 76 T.K.S. Here's one from the Art Academy of Cincinnati days. Hana was such a nubile, lythe, graceful, beauty. My God-Goddess, she probably still is! This one was a direct to plywood board one shot sitting of 4 hours. In those days, if I tuned into a model, she would later tell me the rest of the students (for her) became a blur as soon as I'd enter the class. That was true for me, as well. She overwhelmed me with her holy presence. I had to find a board, any surface large enough to paint on. And then I put my recent study of Frank duveneck's Munich School style to practise. I'd done (by that time) over half a dozen exact copies of masterpieces in the Cincinnati art museum. On this day, I found that "I'd learned something". the other exponents of this style (munich school painters of the turn of the 20th century), were Whistler, Robert Henri, Singer-Sargeant, Frans Hals (the originator form a century before), Frederich Blum, William Merrit Chase and many more. Check out the Bohemians, and the Munich School, you'll find out more. Actually, in those days Tobacco was just starting to be exported widely-they all smoked some sort of pipe... it seems, also, that the trends around Absynthe and Ale all supported artistic philosophical under currents to the movement of art world wide. They were seeing into the wood-cut prints from the east, the porcelain designs and these popular painters were like famous directors of our present day. Lines would form to see their work, but right when they were strongest, the imaginations, colors and aesthetics arising out of Monet, Degas, Cassatt, and the other impressionists soon began to over take them.