Visionary, academic, cracked, and clumsy; deeply felt, labored, cartoonlike, and funky. All these descriptions apply to Verne Dawson's paintings of life in the year 23,800 B.C. (the time of the earliest cave paintings, 21,000 years before Stonehenge). Think Brueghel by way of Hudson River painting, folk art, and Poussin; Bosch meets Grandma Moses meets Celestial... More >>>