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Stuck. Time Magazine
Silver Lining
Malachy McCourt 1931-2024
Samuel Merritt for Samuel Merritt University
Rainbow
Olaf Shulz for Der Spiegel
Shameless
sisyphus rests
Heavy is the Head
The Wide Awakes for Smithsonian Magazine
Robert Parker for Town & Country Magazine
American Oligarchy for Mother Jones Magazine
The Wilderness of Girls for Zando Books
Henry Lewis Gate on Whitewashing for LMU Magazine
Dreams for Scientific American
‘Cascade’
Waterfall
The Pisces
The GOP roller coaster for TIME
Surgeon and Candidate Dr. Brian Williams for D Magazine
Ron DeSantis for TIME
Edogen for Der Spiegel
Coda
Lincoln for TIME
Twitter Bot
Elon Musk…almost
Rainbow Builders
Beyonce
Year One
The Peace Corps 2021
Biden and Putin for TIME
Eruption
Dictators
Gilded
Bridgerton
Moonstuck
Fall Out of a Window
Cats
Meghan Markle
Day One for TIME
The Jess Show
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
How artists in the US reacted to Trump for Les Inrockuptibles
Vote 2020
President Bartlet for Entertainment Weekly
Trump and the Plague Election for Time
‘Entangled Life’ How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, & Shape Our Futures
Fire Starter
Time, Ellen Sirleaf Johnson
Stagehand
Bill Barr
Worlds
Trump at Davos, 2020
Time Magazine’s 2019 Businessperson of the Year, Bob Iger & Baby Yoda
Whale
Young George Washington
Go Back Where You Came From
Trump -Just Singin’
Knock Knock
The Marriage of Figaro for Cincinnati Opera
Mansa Musa
‘Hubris’ oil on panel, 2018
All the Czar’s Men
‘In Deep’ for TIME
‘The Greatest’ for Texas Monthly
‘Stormy’ Cover for Time Magazine
The Great Passenger Pigeon Comeback for Dow Jones
Tiger Woods for Golf Magazine
‘King Me’ for Time
‘Freedom of Worship’ for Smithsonian
‘La Traviata’ for the Cincinnati Opera
Nothing to See Here
Make America Toxic Again for Mother Jones
‘Dunkirk’ Movie of the Year for Entertainment Weekly
Mike Pence for The Atlantic
Prince Kushner
Liberty Cut Short
Black Marilyn
Father Theodore Hesburgh – USPS Commemorative Stamp 9/1/17
Ivanka
Trump’s War on Washington
The Good, the Bad, and the Kid
Jack Johnson
Hail Trump
Betsy DeVos
Neaderthal
Black Elvis
Chairman Xi
Rethinking Space
Rabbit Duck on Pond
Brexit
Hillary
Realism
Ocean Train
FrankenTrump
Jesus Fedora
MIT Cover
Vin Scully
Shirley Temple
Hunger Games
Neutralized Threat
Mirror Therapy
Spacial Relationships
Mitt Romney
Hamilton
Oscar House of Cards
Scale
Emily
Pope Francis for Time
Soldier Break
Morning Phase
Teacup Wave
Gaddafi
The Boat
Chicken King
Napoleon
Lift Off
Don Draper in his 80s
Duck Rabbit
Tortoise Acting Human
Food
American Pope
Soviet Chimpman
Rockwell
Young Lincoln
Barack Obama for Rolling Stone
Obama vs McCain for Time
The loss of Time
Giraffe
Can’t Work
Steve Jobs
Priest
Chuck Brown
Can’t Speak
Chicken and the Egg
Nobody Can See
Vladimir Putin, Person of the Year, Time Magazine, Unpublished
Secrets of American History
Lil’ Kim for Time
Mary and Cat
Fire Frog
The End of Ideas for Ad Age Magazine
Pucci
James O’Keefe
Imaginator Spark
Lucy Knives
Hurricane Zane
Mexican American Gothic
Titanic
Alchemy
Chimpanzee
MockingJay by Suzanne Collins
Palin
Mammoth
Albert Einstein
Mahatma Gandhi For Time Magazine
FDR for Time Magazine
Slam by Walter Dean Myers
Mona Lisa
Creation Versus Evolution for Playboy
BP Aftermath
The Mountaintop
Osama Bin Laden
John Stewart
Muhammad Ali
Zarqawi for Time
Ziggy Stardust for Rolling Stone
Civil War
Fidel Castro for Der Spiegel
A New Bruegel Painting
Olive
Buster Keaton for Entertainment Weekly
Vampire Economy
Marie Antoinette, (The Royal Diaries)
Lady of Ch’Iao Kuo: Warrior of the South (The Royal Diaries)
Victoria, May Blossom of Britannia, England 1829 (The Royal Diaries)
Weetamoo: Heart of the Pocassets,1653 (The Royal Diaries)
Ella Underground
Thomas Edison
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Ascent of Man
Mark Twain
Double Beach
Matt Long
Roman Saturnalia
Pope Benedict for Time
Clinton as President in NYC
Michael Jackson for Rolling Stone
Men of the Year for Time Magazine, 1998
His Master’s Voice Redux
Dolphins
Frog Prince
Ship on the World