curated tablescapes with implied narratives
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
I have always loved Gumby. When I was a boy, he was my hero. I never really watched the tv show but made up adventures for Gumby to survive much like the serial adventures of Dick Tracy or the Rocket man. This painting has had several titles. Originally it was to be called 'What will our hero do now?"
Richard A. Jacobson
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 72 in (182.88cm)
I imagined a favorite son, a young king to his parents as i was to mine and my son is to me. I imagined his shelf maybe years after he had left of college or where ever, left untouched by his parents. A small shrine to him.
Richard A. Jacobson
oil on panel
48 in (121.92 cm) x 48 in (121.92 cm)
When I was young, I read constantly, mostly sic-fi, late into the night with a small silver flashlight to illuminate the pages. That flashlight also was my ray gun and even my light saber. I went looking for it to create this painting. I searched eBay without real results until I walked into this tiny junk shop and found 2. One sits on my shelf in my studio, the other is taped to the back of this painting, a little surprise to its new owner.
Richard A. Jacobson
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
At one time I spent a far amount of time in front of a typewriter and now the keyboard on my laptop. In the times when nothing was moving, when words wouldn’t come and I felt frustrated, dry and uninspired I would remember men like Hemingway who reached for a bottle to lubricate the words. I imagined a writer like that working late into the morning trying to decide. I never was very clear on what the decision was about. The crumbled piece of paper on the right with nothing on it, the notebook open, a large dice not yet picked up, all left for a glass of scotch.
Richard A. Jacobson
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
Every generation redefines itself, it’s roles, it’s ambitions, and even it’s fears. I grew up at the end of a time when ‘men were men” and being up north, the change to a gentler ideal of manhood was not popular. I always imagined a ‘man’ as someone that carried a gun on his hip and walked with certain John Wayne swagger. Being a person who liked to read and draw placed me well outside the ‘manly lines’ and caused many difficult moments.
Too learn to walk as a man as I felt was to follow a different path and only occasionally with a swagger.
Richard A. Jacobson
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
In many ways this is a self-portrait at 16. It is a collection of things I had when I was trying to figure ‘me’ out. The records I was listening to, the books and magazines I was reading, the lamp I used to read by, my interest in fitness and even the phone I used to call friends and girls on. It was a party line which meant everyone knew what I was doing and who I was talking to. The Barbi doll is a stand-in for the idea girl I had yet to find or for that matter define for myself.
Richard A Jacobson
oil on panel
48 in (121.92 cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
oil on panel
12 in (30.48 cm) x 16 in (40.64 cm)
oil on linen
76 in (193.04cm) x 48 in (121.92 cm)
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
oil on panel
48 in (121.92 cm) x 48 in (121.92 cm)
oil pn panel
36in (91.44 cm) x 36in (91.44cm)
oil pn panel
36in (91.44 cm) x 36in (91.44cm)
oil on panel
48 in (121.92 cm) x 48 in (121.92 cm)
oil on panel
36in (91.44 cm) x 36in (91.44cm)
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
oil on panel
48 in (121.92 cm) x 48 in (121.92 cm)
oil on panel
48 in (121.92 cm) x 48 in (121.92 cm)
oil on panel
16 in (40.64 cm) x 18 in (45.72 cm)
oil on panel
48 in (121.92 cm) x 48 in (121.92 cm)
oil on panel
48 in (121.92 cm) x 48 in (121.92cm)
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
oil on panel
16 in (40.64 cm) x 24 in (60.96 cm)
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
oil on panel
48 in (121.92 cm) x 48 in (121.92 cm)
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
oil on panel 36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
oil on panel
36in (91.44cm) x 60in (152.4 cm)
oil pn panel
36in (91.44 cm) x 36in (91.44cm)
