Lone Cow

  A week ago I visited the Ella Sharp Museum in Jackson, MI to see the Charles Franklin Chamberlain exhibit... my grandpa!   I wish my dad and aunt could have seen it.  Maybe they are looking down from above.  I believe they would be proud to see their dad's work on display.  My Aunt Joyce was a huge help in writing the biography Charles Franklin Chamberlain : Drawn to France and in helping me organize materials.   I came to believe that neither her nor my dad ever realized exactly how many canvases, art books, sketchbooks, paints, painting materials, photos, glass plate negatives and other ephemeral items were stored away in dusty corners and spider filled attics.  Joyce died in November of 2018.  I had already been working with someone for a while at this stage on the artwork.  We started an endless cycle of restoring a painting to sell to get money to restore paintings to sell to get money to restore paintings.... you get the i...