Artist Inspiration - Walter Blaine Early IV

Sometime in May 2007, Gessoed tobacco stakes, oak

This piece originated from an experience Early had in his grandfather's tobacco field in Tennessee. The back part of the property, which had previously been a rising hill, had been sold and was being developed as an airport to service the surrounding community. Standing in an environment filled with moving lines, Early says "there was a harshness to the dead flat runway peaking through the mass of still budding trees." This realization led to his interpretation: tobacco stakes forming a constructed yet still organic tree line with a contrasting, rectangular horizontal element in the distance. Photographed at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft. http://www.kentuckyarts.org/