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Andy Thurber Gallery On Greene is pleased to represent Andy Thurber. Click on an image for a larger view.
Thurber captures Key West's past
The seaport was still just the bight and Singleton was still processing crustaceans there. If you ever heard the 1951 Jo Stafford lyrics “The Shrimp boats are comin'/There's dancin' tonight,” you might find yourself humming them at the sight of all the boats in port, gear pointing skyward.
If you saw six or more anchored off Smathers Beach, you knew a norther was coming. There were net shops where old-timers, too unstable for going to sea anymore, mended the nets for the next generation.
Shrimpers in white rubber slops boots were a common sight and “traffic” was a word that was hard to fit into island life.
The natives had wonderful stories about their lives here during those years after the Depression, and especially after the post-war era when the U.S. Navy began to scale down.
Artist Andy Thurber grew up here then and his delightful folk paintings in multiple media chronicle the generation that came behind Mario Sanchez.
He's building up inventory for a new show at the Gallery on Greene next month. He has a lyrical sensitivity to events and a fearless attack strategy on his images.
“The Day It Rained Bluebirds” shows a fisherman on a green sea looking at a gold sky full of birds. “Barn swallows before a rain storm drove this vision,” he says.
In “Ropa Vieja” a buxom waitress serves up a
plate of Cuban food while a cartoony black cat awaits his share.
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