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I want to find out who made a certain painting. How can I find out

clevohardcore - 12-4-2010 at 03:39 AM

It is an older man on a small row boat holding a young child. The waters are real rough and they are sitting in back end of the small boat. The man is wearing a yellow rain jacket/coat I believe. The child looks frightened, but the man is determined to protect her.


Over the summer while working security at the hospital I noticed it on a wall while doing rounds. It was in the Family Birthing Center. I always glanced at it and it never left me. I want to find a print of it. Not sure where to look though.

wez138 - 12-4-2010 at 03:53 AM

What style is it in? Fine art etc etc.

XnMeX - 12-4-2010 at 09:29 AM

Get someone with a smartphone to take a picture of it and use Google Goggles... http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles

BDx13 - 12-4-2010 at 11:41 AM

^exactly what i was thinking.

lifeisabitch - 12-4-2010 at 12:27 PM


JawnDiablo - 12-4-2010 at 12:37 PM

the painting from goodfellas.....

Vanilla Gorilla - 12-4-2010 at 12:47 PM

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Originally posted by juandiablo
the painting from goodfellas.....


Ha ha Yes!.
Oh, I like this one... One dog goes one way, the other dog goes the other way, and this guy's sayin', "Whadda ya want from me?' Guy's got a nice head of white hair, it's beautiful.

lifeisabitch - 12-4-2010 at 12:51 PM

yeah had to do it sorry

clevohardcore - 12-5-2010 at 03:09 AM

The hospital got rid of them from what I was told. They remodeled the FBC area since I left. I told a guy I worked with how much I liked the painting and supposedly they offered some of them to employees.

random - 12-5-2010 at 08:11 AM

Damn, Clevo, you're making it difficult for us to help!

Did most of the artwork look similar? There's a good chance that everything was by the same artist (so that it looks nice on the wall, but everything "matches" and doesn't distract you), so you can ask the guy you know or call the Family Birthing Center and ask them if they know who the artist is. If you can find that out, you should be able to find his/her collection and then just have to search until you find the right one.

The other option is to post the name of the hospital, and some of us can search around online to try and find out if the artist's name is mentioned online. If it's a local artist, it's probably somewhere online - likely in a local paper or mentioned on the artist's website.


XHonusWagnerX - 12-5-2010 at 10:03 AM

I wonder if it was a local buy that painted them all for the office?

clevohardcore - 12-5-2010 at 12:51 PM

I got a photo on my cell phone of it. Let me see if I can get it on here today.

wez138 - 12-5-2010 at 09:02 PM

From what I can gather most hospitals hang paintings by local painters. That's why a large percentage of them look like shit.