Frank” is really a portrait of John Santigo from Silver Creek, NY.  I stopped to buy fresh fruit and found the face of a man I had worked with years ago as a teenager in North Jersey. My Frank was a migrant worker who arrived every spring with his family to work the farm where I sold fruit and vegetables, and disappeared every fall.  The lines on his face and the roughness of his hands spoke of long hours spent in the sun working . . .planting, hoeing, weeding, picking, lifting, hauling . . . but his spirit was inspiring . . . his twinkling eyes were always ready to play a practical joke or share a laugh.

Transparent watercolor
Original: $200
Offered as 8.5 x 11 print for $30

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