{"id":1876,"date":"2025-06-20T18:42:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T18:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2026-06-29T18:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:13:14","slug":"seeing-long-forgotten-art-works-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/seeing-long-forgotten-art-works-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing long-forgotten art works again"},"content":{"rendered":"

On my recent trip to Minnesota, I met up with a childhood friend who had recently moved to a new home, and he mentioned some art works of mine in his possession. I had a vague memory of him having some of my art, as I have a couple of his and my recollection is that we traded work back in the 1990s. But when he pulled them out of storage, I felt like I was reunited with old friends, I had completely forgotten about these pieces, and don’t think I even had photographs of them.*<\/p>\n

I’ll confess, the image above is my own photoshop work, placing them in a virtual room environment. He had just recently moved, so they had been in a room with all of his other not-yet-dispersed items. But here’s a closer look at the 3 pieces. Clockwise from top left are: “The Happy Tree,” 1991, 15 x 11 inch watercolor and ink on paper; “Eye Don’t Know,” 1992, 14 x 13 1\/2 inch watercolor on board; and “Structured Ambivalence,” 1994, 17 x 24 inch oil on canvas.<\/p>\n

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Clockwise from top left: The Happy Tree, Eye Don’t Know, and Structured Ambivalence, art by Mark McKinney in a private collection in Minnesota.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

* I later found out I did have photographs of them – but in 35mm slide format, the format of choice in the art world in the early 1990s! Funny how illogical 35mm slides seem for art presentation now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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