Donald Roller Wilson

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BEVERLY, NORMALLY A LITTLE DUMB...
10.5"H. x 18"W. (UNFRAMED) 16"H. x 24"W. (FRAMED)
OIL
$20,000

BEVERLY, NORMALLY A LITTLE DUMB BUT ALWAYS SWEET, COULD BECOME FIERCE AT THE DROP OF A HAT AND TURN INTO HER OTHER SELF, MRS. ROGERS...( THE ABILITY FOR SUDDEN CHANGE BEING A MENOPAUSAL CONSEQUENCE)...(AS FAR AS COULD BE TOLD)...

AND, EARLIER IN THE MORNING, SHE HAD CAUGHT MEG RUNNING THROUGH THE WOODS AFTER HAVING SET FIRE TO BOTH HER HALF BROTHER JACK’S TAIL, AND TO A BURNING BUSH WHICH WAS BOTH BURNING, AND SPEAKING PRIOR TO MEG RE-LIGHTING IT...(WITH MEG ACTUALLY BEING WHO COOKIE TURNS INTO WHEN COOKIE BECOMES HER OTHER SELF)...

AND BEVERLY HAD SEEN THESE THINGS...AND THOUGH UNSUCCESSFUL IN CATCHING MEG, SHE WAS ABLE TO RETRIEVE MEG’S BIG SPENT MATCH...

AND IT WAS DURING THIS VERY MOMENT, FOLLOWING ALL THESE THINGS, WHEN JUDY SPOTTED BEVERLY...AND JUDY DREADED THE MOMENT OF TRANSITION AT HAND...

MEDIUM

OIL ON GESSO PANEL

SIZE

10, 1/2” H. X 18” W. (UNFRAMED PANEL SIZE)
16” H. X 24” W. (FRAMED)

FRAME IS MUSEUM QUALITY, CONSIDERED AN INSEPARABLE PART OF THE ART. FRAME HAS BEEN DESIGNED BY THE ARTIST, SPECIFICALLY FOR THE PAINTING AND IS CONSTRUCTED OF HAND CARVED BASS WOOD, TRADITIONALLY WATER GILDED WITH 23KT YELLOW GOLD OVER A BASE OF GESSO AND RED BOLE. CONCAVE OUTER PANELS OF FRAME HAVE RECEIVED AN ASPHALTUM WASH WHICH HAS BEEN CRACKLED AND DISTRESSED.

CARVED LETTERS OF LINER ARE GILDED TO MATCH THE FRAME. THEY READ EXACTLY AS FOLLOWS:

(top edge)
BEVERLY COULD TURN INTO
(right edge)
MRS. ROGERS
(bottom edge)
AT THE DROP OF A HAT, AND
(left edge)
THE TIME CAME!

SIGNED

(LOWER RIGHT CENTER))
DONALD ROLLER WILSON 2007/26