Painting History

"Delaware Water Gap History"/Sold

Timber raft going downriver to market. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad established a route to the Gap in 1855

"Giving Tree of Walpack Center, NJ" Sold/Prints available

Celebrating the old apple tree that saw the heyday of the town in the mid-19th century and it’s demise by the Tocks Island Dam Project in the 1970s.

"Joseph Brant, Noble Savage" Available

oil painting available 26 x 30” Joseph Brant (Thayendanega) Mohawk Warrior (Torie)of Revolutionary War

"Stationed in France" Sold

American servicemen on break from tour duty in post WW2 France. Ghostly image of French girl and kitten above them.

Great Oak of Walpack

Great Oak of Walpack – Farmer Derone says goodbye to the extraordinary Oak in the middle of his farm field. The town was evacuated by the failed Tocks Island Dam project. Inspired by poem “In This Valley” by Kerri Nicole McCaffrey.

ZIMMERMANN - COPPER FOOTED BOWL ON LICHEN: Original oil painting 14 x 18”/Available

Marie Zimmermann, a renowned metalwork and jewelry artist of the early 20th century, lived along the Delaware River near Milford. Marie Liu recreates her pieces as still-life in nature.

Zimmermann House with Copper Patina Vessel/Sold

Marie Zimmermann, a renowned metalwork and jewelry artist lived in this house that her father built until 1975. One of her metalwork creations sits under a hickory tree in her yard.

Great Council Tree/Available

framed oil painting 48 x 48”Prints available

Describes the history of an approx. 450 year-old Oak in Walpack NJ which was alive when the Lenape (Delaware) Indians called this place home and William Penn was granted proprietorship of that land. Thought to be the northern most NJ boundary marker when Quintipartite Deed of 1674 divided New Jersey into East and West.

Pinchot

"Midnight Forests" Available

framed oil painting 22 x 32” Roosevelt and Pinchot scramble to set aside National forests before signing 1907 Agricultural Bill ending that Presidential power.

"Pinchot Soul" Available

framed oil painting 21 x 24.5” Portrait of Gifford Pinchot, first Chief Forester of USFS, appearing in the bark of a tree

"Pinchot, Gone Fishin" Sold/Prints available

Chief Forester Pinchot fights to protect Roosevelt’s environmental policies in wake of Taft election. He lobbies and speaks tirelessly around the country, then returns to his Milford home to go fishing in his beloved Sawkill Creek

"Pocono Rushmore of Conservation"/Sold

Imagining the faces of Rachael Carson, Gifford Pinchot, Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir carved into the Pocono Plateau.