Lion Loose, 1940 Mary Blair The first thing I noticed

The first thing I noticed in this scene was the  pink flowering almond

PART 1- A Vision Unfolds

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Twenty-five of the leading painters of the period are profiled in richly illustrated individual sections

Mom described how she stood up on the hill overlooking Urquhart Castle as Dad (age 71) and Andrew ran down to explore the castle

Lion Loose, 1940 Mary Blair The first thing I noticedA California fine art gicle print on premium watercolor paper. The story behind this dramatic piece that I was told since early childhood is that a lion got loose from a circus cage and roamed the streets of L. A. for a while. I guess it was a big news item there for a couple of days until the lion was retrieved and returned to his cage. Evidently it caught my father's imagination. Courtesy of son, Ian Patrick