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E. Charles Rolwing III

Artist / Cowboy

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Chicago artist April 4, 2016 E. Charles Rolwing Statement Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Franz Kafka The making of art is for me a journey of construction and destruction. Each brush stroke comes out of my very soul, a place deep in my subconscious. I paint with my heart on my sleeve. The most I can offer that is unique is honesty to my emotions, to lay out that which makes me human. My imagery comes from working in my sketchbooks. That is where I work out the intellectual aspects, symbols and the problems of composition and color theory. There is a place between the intellectual (classic problems of composition and content), and the ethereal (subconscious) where true meaning emerges. It is here that new ideas emerge. I work an idea in dozens of studies before I begin a he painting. Then, when I begin the painting I have a library of ideas and a basic idea of where to start. From that point the painting becomes an idea in itself. It is a reaction to a self contained idea of itself. Each movement follows another, each a reaction to the previous stroke. It is here that the image begins to emerge. I am careful to allow the subconscious to breathe freely, to be open and honest to what is happening, to be in the moment. It happens sometimes to destroy the painting in the process. I wipe out, scrape, repaint, and over paint the image. No painting in my studio is safe. The finished painting is that idea in itself, something to be experienced as a self-contained entity. The viewing of a painting physically changes the chemistry of the brain, and it lives with the viewer in memory. It is the private language of the artist and the viewer. We share that time together.

Ishmael #2, oil on canvas, 16” x 20”. $350 framed

March 17, 2023
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Odyssey, oil on canvas, 16” x 20”

March 16, 2023
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Ahab, tempera on paper, 11” x 14”, $350 framed

March 16, 2023
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Ishmael, tempera on paper, 11” x 14”

March 14, 2023
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Untitled (Spring), watercolor on paper, 8” x 10”

March 6, 2023
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Ishmael #5, oil on canvas, 20” x 16”

February 25, 2023
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Figure with Wire Hat, oil on linen panel, 24” x 20”

February 18, 2023
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The Red Wig, watercolor on paper, 8” x 10”

February 15, 2023
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Figure with Wire Hat, watercolor on paper, 8” x 10”

February 13, 2023
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Daydream, tempera on paper

February 13, 2023
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House of Cards, oil on canvas, 36” x 49”

February 13, 2023
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Figure with Red Veil, tempera on paper, 17” x 14”

January 27, 2023
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Golden Hair, tempera on paper, 17” x 14”

January 24, 2023
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Bombs Bursting in A

January 23, 2023

cBombs Bursting in Air, tempera on paper, 17” x 14”

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Traveler, tempera on paper, 17” x 14”

January 10, 2023
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The Bums of Uptown, tempera on paper

January 7, 2023
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Portrait of Richard Jackson, tempera on paper, 17” x 14”

January 6, 2023
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Gears of War, tempera on paper, 17” x 14”

January 6, 2023
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We Were the Bums of Uptown, tempera on paper, 14” x 17”

January 4, 2023
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Hope, oil on linen panel, 20 x 24”

December 31, 2022
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Portrait of Tim Stegmaier

December 26, 2022
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The acquaintance, tempera on paper

December 25, 2022
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The Bums of Uptown

December 23, 2022

Welcome to my website Portrait of the Artist

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Figure with Beach Ball, oil on linen panel, 20” x 24”

December 20, 2022
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Yellow Field, oil on linen panel, 20” x 24”

December 16, 2022
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