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Travel Pastels
Europe, 1972

 

 

All travel pastels are soft pastel on acrylic ground on watercolor paper.
Rome and Greece pastels are 12 x 12 ins. Unless otherwise noted, Crete pastels are 30 x 22 ins.
All images are from my own slides of places I had been during our 1971 trip.

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Rome
Left to right, top to bottom:
Unidentified, Monument Victor Emmanuel
Trevi Fountain, Dome of St. Peter's.
1972

 


Views in Greece
Left to right, top to bottom:
Parthenon, View of Acropolis
Unidentified, Unidentified
Unidentified, Mycenae: Lions Gate
1972

 


The Harvester Vase, Minoan
1973
ptg is approx. 22 x 22 ins.

 


Cup, Minoan
1973

 

 


Crete, Knossos
A tourist among the ruins
1973

 

 


Crete, a private chapel in the countryside
1973
(private collection, Atlanta, GA.)

 


Easter in Crete, 15 images in the style of postcards.
each approx. 5 x 6 ins.
1972.
(private collection, San Francisco)

 

 

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