Booker Oil Painting Collection

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24 x 30
Fragments of the artist's life.

A BETTER WINTER
22 x 28
If statues could speak.

A LITTLE SPACE
22 x 28
From nothing space to nothingness.

A SIGN TO GO HOME
18 x 24
Birds are God's microphone.

AFRICAN HERDSMEN
24 x 30
There are important things somewhere, sometime.

AFRICAN VILLAGE
22 x 28
As seen from Tarzan movies through the artist's eyes and African tongues.

ANGELS
24 x 30
Until they grow up, they are angels.

ANTICIPATION
24 x 30
Remember that first big trip? Like a first date; gone before beginning.

ASHY LEGS
24 x 30
When grease is needed to save face.

AUTUMN LEAVES
20 x 24
Like people, everything falls.

BARE FRUIT
24 x 30
Like plants, life is bare without life. Without spirit life is bare.

BEHOLDER'S EYES
24 x 30
What we see isn't always there.

BEREAVED
20 x 24
Laugh at your funeral and dance too, but cry at your wedding.

BIRD'S EYE
12 x 16
A place to land or to drop.

BIRDS 'N' BEES
12 x 16
Nature seen from Nature's eyes.

BIRTH
24 x 30
Delivery standing is easier on the body.

BLIND BOYS
24 x 30
To hear them will give one a sense of gospel unheard of beyond America.

BOOGIE DOWN
24 x 30
If you got rhythm, flaunt it.

BORDEAUX BAY
16 x 20
West end of St. Thomas where air is freshest and away from the maddening crowd.

BOUGAINVILLEA WEDDING
24 x 30
A fresh bride is like fresh flowers.

BRIGHT SIDE
24 x 30
What joy to behold nature in the crescent of day/evening once gone, lost forever.

BUS STOP
22 x 28
Like ants coming and going.

CANASTA
24 x 30
The mother of all card games.

CARNIVAL I
24 x 30
Jump up excitement.

CARNIVAL II
24 x 30
Tin rhythm

CARNIVAL III
24 x 30
Life celebration to uplift man's bondage.

CAYENNE SPRING
24 x 30
When hot is cool - it's cool to be hot.

CLEOPATRA
16 x 20
A woman ahead of her time in the world of beauty, it is said.

CLOTHES PINS
24 x 30
It's in the wash; taken for granted, great power.

CLOWN
18 x 24
It takes courage to make people laugh at nothing.

COMPANIONS
24 x 30
In vastness there are spirits with us.

COMPETITION
24 x 30
Sincerest form of flattery or success at another's expense.

COWBOY AND INDIAN
18 x 24
Everybody has blue eyes.

CYCLE OF LIFE
24 x 30
Life must be a test for mankind.

DADDY'S GIRL
24 x 30
Two thousand for her thoughts.

DANCER
22 x 30
Watusi was born long ago.

DANCING CLOUDS
18 x 24
There is a message here.

DARK AWAKENING
24 x 30
In the presence of a storm, a little knowledge is more powerful than the storm to one little boy.

DIE TO LIVE
30 x 36
All is temporarily lost in this life.

DOWN HOME BLUES
30 x 40
Blues are happiness to the artist and his family/friends just by being here and to share life.

DUST STORM
24 x 30
As the paint dries, it too becomes dust.

DUST TO DUST
24 x 30
New leaves like life, dries and vanishes.

EARTH REMEDY
18 x 24
Everything comes from the earth so earth is God's wife.

EASTER CHILD
24 x 30
Portrait of artist's daughter, twenty years ago. She was three at the time.

ENVY
12 x 16
If no one envied, would there be motivation?

FALLEN ANGELS
24 x 30
Gravity even takes feathers.

FANCY FREE
24 x 30
The artist uses vastness of beach and children to express total freedom in the presence of storm (chaos).

FAREWELL
20 x 24
Night time goodbye like the old days.

FIRST DANCE
24 x 30
We are never too old to learn.

FIRST LADY HILLARY
18 x 24
America's darling.

FOOTPRINTS
24 x 30
Walking on snow is walking above ground.

FORGET ME NOT
16 x 20
In the real world the only one that counts is God

FOUR GENERATIONS
30 x 40
Symbolizes the importance of family relationship, created because the artist stresses family.

FRUIT BOWL
14 x 18
An art teacher loves to have one create a fruit bowl. Why not a moving object?!

GARDEN STREET IN ST. THOMAS
18 x 24
Smelling the fragrances and fresh breeze before tourists arrive is breathtaking.

GHOST
24 x 36
The ghost is seen if you are sensitive enough to see it.

GOLDEN THOUGHTS
24 x 30
There is a time and place for everything.

GRACEFULLY
30 x 40
Love expressed out in the open.

GRAFFITI
22 x 28
Recorded messages from a dying generation who is creating their own way even as victims.

HARBOR SUNSET
14 x 18
Columbus loved these waters and once there, you can see why.

HEARTS OF STONE
24 x 30
Man kills man's only hope.

HOT CANDLES
11 x 14
See God's message.

HUES
8 x 10
Color has no meaning if we can't see. Color makes a whole; hues enhance it.

JAMAICA MAN
9 x 12
A bottle of rum, tin drum, fast gals and a whole lot of fun.

JULY SNOW
22 x 28
The beauty of it outweighs the hardships.

LITTLE FEET
22 x 28
A world at your feet.

LIVING DOLLS
18 x 24
Only when we present ourselves as a portrait are we doll-like.

MASAI JUMP
24 x 30
The dust gets in the skin and prevents wrinkles.

MIDNIGHT KING
16 x 20
To be black as night only to be invisible by day; to be sought out except acknowledged.

MISS TOURIST
24 x 30
Away from it all.

NATIVE HOMELAND
16 x 20
There is no place like home as it is said or home is where the heart is. God's kingdom is home.

NATURE'S BEST
24 x 30
Beaches are never the same yet all are beautiful.

NATURE LOVERS
24 x 30
Sometimes the forest is easier to see than the trees.

NEW ORLEANS FUNERAL
24 x 30
Since death is the beginning, why not a celebration.

NEW SHOES
20 x 24
Legs come in all sizes.

NOW PLAYING
24 x 30
Waiting for fresh popcorn and sodas.

OBEAH
16 x 20
Ritual to explain life eliminates troubles, explains life as they see it.

ONCE UPON A TIME
24 x 30
Remember the walks we took.

PAST PARADISE
30 x 40
L.A's sanctuary inside the ghetto; before the "Big One" in L.A.

PEACE IN THE VALLEY
24 x 36
To see life on Happy Avenue is a reprieve from the devil.

PEACH FUZZ
24 x 30
Once a year, a day like this occurs.

PEEK A BOO
24 x 30
Life has its fun moments even for kids in these times.

POINT OF VIEW
22 x 28
Reflections in some window panes.

RAW PASSION
20 x 24
Opposites attract and sparks can fly; energy increased equals love.

REAL FREEDOM
24 x 30
Sometimes the artist feels that freedom means bondage to something, yet unattainability.

RED WHITE MEN
24 x 30
Does anything every change?

REGGAE ENCOUNTER
30 x 40
Market Square Saturday morning where fun is in shopping, greetings, dining, etc.

REINCARNATION
24 x 30
When a man wanted to be a woman.

RETROSPECT
24 x 30
The artist wishes he was a kid again having old wisdom now. The artist would be a bomb.

REVIVAL TIME
22 x 28
Church outside where God's word can be seen and heard instead of boxed away with money changers.

ROSE FLOWERS
16 x 20
From a dark perspective but the fragrance is still there.

SABBATH DAY
9 x 12
Like an echo in a box closed to the outside but God is everywhere - why keep it inside.

SAME OLD SONG
24 x 30
Until women unite.

SEA GAZERS
30 x 36
Feel the sea mist.

SELF HELP
24 x 36
The world's food problems could be solved if profit was eliminated.

SERENITY
24 x 30
There are places with no people, yet people congregate in the same places.

SHOOTING MARBLES
30 x 40
Holes in kneepants are okay if you win.

SUN OVERULED
8 x 10
At midnight the sun is seen.

SUNSET SUNRISE
24 x 30
Very little difference between sunrise and when the sun sets.

THE EYES TELL
24 x 30
When words are concealed, eyes never lie.

THE WEDDING PARTY
18 x 24
All weddings have the same thing - people.

VANISHING AMERICANS
24 x 36
Real Americans are yet to be determined but taxpayers are a close cousin.

VANISHING PARENTS
24 x 30
AIDS is like a thief in the darkness.

WAILING WALL
24 x 30
What happens if the wall is destroyed.

WATERMELON SKY
22 x 28
Being color blind has advantages.

WHITE FOLKS
24 x 30
Without color we all are white.

WHITE LEAVES
16 x 20
Two black roses as sunglasses of a blond woman.

WISHFUL THINKING
24 x 30
Girls will be girls when boys are around.