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"Dry Season" by Kirt Brown. Retail Price $7800. Net cost $2574.

Hello, I'm back with more deals from the TRA archive. We own a very large painting by Kurt Brown. He is a well known landscape artist, who works with acrylics on canvas or paper. I have no idea where the subject of the painting is. I assume it is simply a composite of imagery the artist enjoys. The medium is acrylic on canvas, and it measures 56 x 86 inches. I imagine placing this work easily in a great room or even a hospital setting. It is serene and deceptively simple. The frame is a reddish Roma wood frame with a distressed finish, with a strip of gold on the inside of the frame. The frame itself is probably worth $2000. I apologize for the hotspot in the upper left region of the photo. The piece is so large that it was difficult to light correctly. (You need a lot of room to light something like this.)

The quotation below is a taken from Kirt Brown's bio:

"Interiors and whimsical fish were what Kirt first painted. Now he is known for landscapes, many of them Italian. Memories of Utah and the land surrounding his parent's cabin also influence the art he does. First painting with oils and now with acrylics on paper or canvas, he loves acrylics. He says, "Painting with oils is too much like washing dishes." The immediate affect of acrylics is very appealing to Kirt, yet, with them he can achieve the same beautiful luminious and viberant look as he could with oils. He layers colors rather than mixing and builds the surfaces. He says of his contemporary landscapes that they are peaceful and his hope is that they exude that quality."

For your home work you can fix as many grammatical mistakes as you like in the preceeding paragraph and send an email back to me. Please take note that I copied it word for word from his website. FYI; I always suggest that artists use a non-artist to proof read their bios.
Extra credit: Fix my grammer if you like.
See you soon. Jeff