Paper 44” x 33.5” / Image 40" x 29.5”

SN Edt 125, 20 AP *, 10 PP *, 5 HC *

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"Although there is much of great importance to be learned from art academia, some of the most meaningful and insightful thinking that I have learned and incorporated into my own work was from my 20 year friendship with Sparky (Charles M Schulz). For example, he would constantly stress that, “the artist is most successful when presenting something familiar in an unfamiliar angle.” He also felt that it was very important to not offend the viewer. In “Free Bird,” I wanted to make a work that expressed to the viewer the feeling of newly found freedom after several years in its absence. In the past few years, in the community of my Venice studio, as I continued to watch how we were experiencing living, and the concept of security and free speech was noticeably in question. Fortunately, recent local elections have produced a few individuals that are attempting to correct the course of that freedom. So as not to possibly offend the viewer and to bring in something familiar, New York's Statue of Liberty, so associated with freedom, seemed to be the perfect vehicle of camouflage to welcome the viewer into the work. The drawing for the work was adopted from one of Sparky’s actual strip drawing constructions, that illustrated his character of Snoopy dressed as the Statue of Liberty holding a football instead of the torch. As I have for decades, had a close relationship with the birds around my studio and home, I have closely identified with them. As a result, I replaced the football with Sparky’s character of Woodstock, flying freely into living". -Tom Everhart 2025

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