This painting, at 30 x 48 inches, is the largest piece of art we own …
It’s signed BUHRMAN 84 …
and came out of one of the many tag sales that my mom ran on Shelter Island.
I’ve tried in the past to find the artist and the closest I’ve come is this obituary and an auction record …
I suspect I’ll never know for sure, but it doesn’t really matter. In all the years we’ve owned “the banana painting” I’ve never tired of looking at it.
That said, trying to capture it in a patchplay caused me to look closer, which is always a good thing. And realizing how challenging it would be, I decided to break it down into three separate pieces …
That plus three more pieces should give me all I need to work the next section of the table cloth … soon.
I'm Going to Texas (version 2.0) 
That is a large painting! Her other work looks interesting…there has to be more info out there, eh?
I think I am missing the bold green in the bottom cloth, or am I missing something? That green in the diamonds really caught my eye. I don’t hink you’ll ever run out of art to cloth-ize! However will you pick jsut 3 more?
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Well, that’s three more for now … then I’ve got to start attaching them to the cloth, which isn’t quite as much fun
And yes, I don’t have anything in my stash that matches that deep green, so I went with the approximate shape of the diamonds instead … definitely a compromise
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Good decision to go for three patches! I expect you will deep dive forever in new ways and at different times; but I’m pretty sure she looks exactly like the woman who would paint “the banana painting”!
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she does to my eye, too
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This is a cool project you’re working on, I love it!
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I wake up thinking “what’s next” each day …
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Researching artists and authors can be very rewarding also opening the potential to discover more talent. Your patches are so nicely done. ❤️❤️
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learning more every day … and thank you
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gosh I love that painting! the colours, the implicit violence (to me anyway…) the subject matter, really there’s so much to savour
and your patchwork squares, boy would I love to be invited to sit at your table!!
it’s such a privilege to watch the table cloth grow
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wouldn’t it be grand to have all the ragmates and kindred spirits in cloth sitting around a table laden with food?
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that would be so cool
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LA – how intriguing about the painting’s provenance. Love the way you have broken it down to create a patchplay triptych – gorgeous patchplay colours. B
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our house has quite a few things that my mom wrangled from house sales and auctions, but this one is definitely the crown jewel
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