This project began in the late winter of 2008 with my submission to a nation wide Call for Art that was arranged through the Nebraska Arts Council. The new Eastern Nebraska Veterans Home in Bellevue, NE in compliance with Nebraska's Percent-for-Art program announced a request for proposals and direct purchase art competition. I submitted a proposal for a commissioned set of artworks.

I'm happy and excited to say that I was awarded the commission for this artwork.

Here's a brief Description of the Project:

It is a set of six paintings that celebrate our Armed Forces and the people and "machines" that make up those forces. Each one of the works in this set focuses on one of the Services:

Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Merchant Marines and Coast Guard

Each will depicts service men, women and/or equipment from that service from various periods of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Each contains the official seal of that service. My hope is that these works will recall the pride and the glory experienced by all those amazing people who chose to give of themselves to us and our country.

Click on the thumbnails above to see the finished paintings for each.