I will call this one 1976 because that is the year it was painted. I am comparing the cleaned up painting (right) to how the painting fared after the fire (left). We were lucky it got saved at all. Kudos to Framin’ Gallery of Edmond, Oklahoma to the fabulous restoration. The way 1976 originally looked is in the Seventies gallery in the Family section. Deane took a slide of the painting plus many others in 1979. Many of the paintings we lost live on because of those slides.
Starting at the top going clockwise: Kirk, at age 12; Jill, at age 11; Gina, at age 7; Anne, at age 14; Kay, at age 9. The dog’s name is Whitey.
Jill has a story about this painting. Deane had an art exhibition/sale that year. Gary Goree, her future husband’s uncle, also displayed paintings. Mary Anne Goree, her mother-in-law, always tells how she remembers seeing this painting at the sale. Jill didn’t meet Brian Goree until seven years later. The flyer below may have been from 1977 because March 6 fell on a Sunday that year.
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