Searching for Sand Rubies

After the Tucson summer rains would fill the arroyos around our house when I was young and the water would disappear as quickly as it came, I would walk along the damp, smooth sand searching for sand rubies. I would collect the small, dark red stones in a white handkerchief and bring them home to show my mother. I would unfold the cloth and lay it flat on the kitchen table, the rubies glistening and dancing against the white material like so many red birds.

A. H. SMITH

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Cowboy

Digital

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Sunday, September 11, 2011

Abstract

6" X 4" Ceramic

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Saturday, September 10, 2011

Faith

7" X 10" Ceramic and Found Objects

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New World

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The Poet

36" X 36" 1988 Acrylic on Canvas

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Thursday, September 8, 2011

The Politics of Water in Arizona

36" X 36" Acrylic Mixed Media on Board

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Tree Line

48" X 36" Acrylic on Canvas

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Will

48" x 48" 1987 Acrylic on Canvas

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Portage

48" X 36" 2003 Acrylic on Canvas

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6.17.04

36 " X 36" 2004 Acrylic on Canvas

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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Snow Crocus

48" X 36" 1988 Acrylic Mixed Media

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Hawk

36" X 36" 1986 Acrylic Mixed Media

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The Crucifiction

36" X 36" 1987 Acrylic and Oil Pastel on Canvas

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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Saint Sebastian

48" X 48" Acrylic on Canvas

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The Lake

36" X 36" Acrylic on Canvas (sold)

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Jones Beach

1956

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Cinderella

48" X 36" Acrylic Mixed Media

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Faith of the Syro-Phoenician Woman

48" X 48" Acrylic on Canvas

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Ghost

6" X 6" Ceramic Mixed Media, Tintype, Coin

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Drowning in Air

48" X 48" Acrylic on Canvas 1989 (sold)

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The Origin of Flight

14" X 12" Paper Collage, Wood Frame, Stone

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Moonscape 2

36" X 24" Acrylic on Canvas

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Monday, September 5, 2011

Moonscape 1

29" X 23" Graphite on Paper

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Sunday, September 4, 2011

Jazz Baby

6" X 9" Ceramic Mixed Media (sold)

6" X

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Box of Hands

12"X 12" circa 1982 Wood and Found Objects (sold)

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Hermit

48" X 48" circa 1987 Acrylic on Canvas

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Saturday, September 3, 2011

The Hermitage

8" X 11 Ceramic Mixed Media (sold)

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Swimmer

29" X 23" Graphite on Paper

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Cactus Flower 2

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I Took Refuge Someplace North of Here

48" X 48" Acrylic Mixed Media

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School Portrait

1954 St. James, New York

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Sahuaro

24" X 48" Acrylic Mixed Media (sold)

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Landscape with Boulders

36 X 36" Acrylic on Canvas

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Drawings Based on Childhood Drawings

29 " X 23" (each) Graphite on Paper

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Studio (Exterior)

2004 Phoenix

2004

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Hauppauge (LXIX)

8 " X 6.5" Ceramic and Found Objects

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Landscape with Lake

36" X 24" Graphite on Paper on Canvas

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In the Beginning

48" X 24" Acrylic on Canvas

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My Mother

Pittsburgh

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Chameleon

20" X 12" Graphite on Paper

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Landscape (Idaho)

36" X 24" Acrylic on Canvas (sold)

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My Father and I

1949 Bradford Woods, Pennsylvania

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The Church

Ceramic, Found Objects, Paper

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Thursday, September 1, 2011

My Parents at the Stork Club

New York City

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The Solitude of Water

48" X 36" Acrylic on Canvas (sold)

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And Death, Too, Had Its Place

30" X 24" Acrylic on Board (sold)

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Deer

24" X 20" Acrylic on Board (sold)

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ATO (The Beginning and the End)

1967 Tucson Rory McCarthy

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Mask 11

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I was born in 1949.
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http://dancingontherimofthecrater.blogspot.com/

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