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Just the facts:
"Flying at Twilight" as well as "Standing
at Twilight" were reproduced from 30" x 48" oils on
canvas. They were painted to make the first ever Phil Capen
continuous scene triptych with the previously painted and published
"Cypress Twilight". This triptych features an everglades
scene with a great blue heron standing waiting for a snack on the left and
a Louisiana Heron (a.k.a. Tricolored Heron) flying off to better fishing
on the right.
Frivolous details:
The two vertical paintings were commissioned by the owner of "Cypress
Twilight" a year of so after that biggest of all the Capen
masterpieces was finished. Apparently the 48" x 60"
$20,000 oil on canvas wasn't filling up enough of the wall and she need a
couple of companion pieces to the tune of $7500 each to do the room
justice. To the uninitiated, $15,000 for a pair a oil paintings may
seem a bit pricey but when the time and talent of the artist is taken into
consideration, any rational person would realize it's actually a bargain.
Not, only did he give the customer a great price but he also traveled down
to to Miami from his home in Ft. Pierce to retrieve the "Cypress
Twilight" original in order to more precisely match the colors of
the new paintings with those of the previously painted one.
And several months later, wanting to get paid for the two new
pieces, he had to travel back to Miami to deliver all three. On top
of delivering the paintings, he made the mistake of volunteered to hang
the paintings. The hanging turned out successful but was no easy
task and involved among other things a twenty foot ladder, rope,
pulleys, the help of his eldest son, and several hours of
painstaking work. To make matters even worse, all the time the
hanging was going on the artist was sure to have been tortured with nasty
visions of hours of work and thousands of dollars coming crashing to the
floor from sixteen feet in the air.
If you like it, you can
buy it:
If you happen to have the extra money, you can commission a similar
triptych which will take the artist no more than a year or two to complete
and will only require an investment of about $50,000. (Wise
investment advisors recommended allocating about 5% of long term
investment funds in Phil Capen original art.) If your budget, on the
other hand, can't accommodate Phil Capen originals then you will be happy
to know that these images as well as over 50 other Phil Capen images come
as reproductions as giclees
on either watercolor paper or canvas. As like many other Capen
reductions, there are a variety of sizes to fill any need, want, or
craving.
Random thoughts:
Why do the everglades look better in a Phil Capen painting than when
traveling across Alligator Alley or Route 41?
Don't confuse
"triptych" with its homonym, AAA's "TripTik"® .
Do you want more info on
the birds in this painting and others? Check out the very good and free www.enature.com
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