Havana

Acrylic on canvas, 8 x 10 inches. This painting is based on a painting that I saw at the dkGallery, my most favorite artists gallery. The gallery, owned by Donna Krueger, is located on Marietta Square (Georgai). The painting was done by Ana Guzman, one of the featured artists at dkGallery. Her painting, entitled “La Vida Cuba: Green Corner in Havana,” is 50 x 50 inches, oil on linen. Here is a link to see Ana Guzman’s original painting. I thought the painting was simply beautiful. My brother-in-law, Pedro Diaz was born in Cuba, and emigrated to Boston in 1956. He met my sister, Mary, and they married in 1962. We became very good friends. Unfortunately, Pedra passed away 10 years ago. Thus, the painting had special meaning to me because of Pedro, and the happiness his family voiced about the new relationship between Cuba and the US.

My painting is much smaller than Ana Guzman’s. But I tried to re-imagine the scene that she painted. I was not sure (and still am not) whether this was a bus station, or a train station. But I imagined the two people pulling suitcases along the corridor of the beautiful building in the scene. And I loved the car. One of my grandsons, Jeffrey Wilson, who is 17, loves cars as well, and in a way, I was thinking of him, too.