![]() ![]() ![]() It was the first purchase for the memorial collection of the Mildred Barry Memorial Center for the Arts. ![]() This was the most expensive piece of art, not counting buildings and tombstones, and not counting the statue of Abraham Lincoln in front of the old Nigger high school. The vertical stripe was day-glo orange reflecting tape. The field was Hawaiian Avocado, a green wall paint manufactured by the O’Hare Paint and Varnish Company in Hellertown, Pennsylvania. The original was twenty feet wide and sixteen feet high. My duplicate was a miniature of the real thing, and mine was not in color, but I had captured the picture’s form and the spirit, too. And I made an invisible duplicate on my Formica tabletop of a painting by Rabo Karabekian, entitled The Temptation of St. ![]()
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