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Bygone Fields on the
South Slopes of
Chelan Butte

oil on canvas
16” x 20”
2/16/26
Oil painting of old fields flowing down to a river with steep breaks leading to a plateau above.
February 15, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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Breaks
oil on canvas
8” x 10“
2014
An oil painting in a vertical format of a plateau with wheat fields and sky above. Below that mountains can be seen breaking to a lower plateau with an orchard on it.
March 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Line, plane, tones
and color gradients,
seeing fades from dark to light,
or from one color to another,
both & neither

Plateau, Breaks, and Butte
oil on canvas
12” x 39 1/2”
Thanksgiving weekend
2025
Oil painting of a view from Lake Chelan Butte, looking east, towards the Columbia River and the Columbia Plateau. A bench can be seen halfway up on the breaks .
November 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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See Beauty,
See the Butte
oil on arches
23” x 28 3/4”
3/15/26
Oil painting of a butte, a lake, and two rivers. Clouds in the sky.
March 29, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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paintings of the shrub-steppe
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Winter, Breaks, Columbia River, looking east.
oil on board
16” x 20”
1993
February 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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Columbia River
from Chelan Butte
with Apples and Wheat
oil on canvas
24“ x 28“
1993
Oil painting of a teal colored river seen from high up. There are breaks coming down to the river and an orchard can be seen on a bench on the other side. In the foreground an abandoned wheat field can be seen.
March 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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Breaks
oil on canvas
14“ x 24“
2020
A oil painting in a horizontal format of a plateau breaking way to a river below. In the distance pink mountains can be a seen on the left with a yellow sunlit sky in the left corner. Below, on the bottom of river can be seen with trees next to it . The hills breaking down to the river are diagonal with shadows.
March 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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East Slopes Chelan Butte,
with Columbia and
Breaks
oil on canvas
20” x 36”
3/29/26
Oil painting of sloping hills descending to a dark blue river. Across the river is a bench and distant plateau.
March 29, 2026 at 11:52 PM