Quadriga Above the Arch At Grand Army Plaza Acrylic Print

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Watercolor painting of the Quadriga on top of the Arch at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY. The Lady Columbia, an allegorical figure representing the United States, riding in a chariot drawn by two horses, two winged victory figures by her side. The sculpture was completed in 1898 and stands atop the arch known as the Sailors and Soldiers Monument.

The profile picture you see is how we did selfies the old fashioned way...self-portraits! This self-portrait was done in 1980. I was thirty. I had been painting for a couple of years by then. You see me looking at myself in the mirror. I am wearing a pretty dress and earrings. My hair is loose. This was not how I usually looked when I came to the easel. But this self-portrait was different. In this one I am holding out my palette, showing my colors. What I am really doing is saying to God, "Okay, what do you want me to paint now?" (And God, or my guides, and certainly the angels, did tell me, over the years...) Nancy Wait is an American artist and writer who began her journey into art in the late 1970s after an earlier career as an...