"Solitude Near the Long Walk" by Bernie Rosage Jr.

"Solitude near the Long Walk"

County Galway 18x24" oil on stretched canvas

Enchanting Ireland Series
$630 framed ~ $25 shipping and handling

SOLD... Thanks Peter!

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The Long Walk is a street lined with colorful houses located on the banks of the River Corrib where it meets the Galway Bay. Along this street Galway's gentry of old used to go for strolls. People today still stroll the promenade at The Long Walk which is mentioned in Steve Earle’s recent hit song “Galway Girl”… from the movie PS, I Love You.

Well, I took a stroll on the old long walk

Of a day -I-ay-I-ay

"Pat Murphy of the Irish Brigade" by Bernie Rosage Jr.

"Pat Murphy of the Irish Brigade"

8x16x1.75" oil on panel

Enchanting Ireland Series

$360 ~ $20 shipping and handling

SOLD... PRIVATE COLLECTION...

County Wexford, Ireland

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This painting is my representation and acknowledgment of the Irish in America. While in Ireland I noticed the local folks look just like us… then it dawned on me… they are us. I did some research… there are over 34.5 million U.S. residents who claim Irish ancestry. This number is almost nine times the population of Ireland itself (4.1 million). Their contributions are too great to list… they are a part of our history just as we are a part of theirs. At the outbreak of the American Civil War an estimated 170,000 men born in Ireland joined the Union Army, whereas only 40,000 were in the Confederate Army. At the Battle of Fredericksburg they were directly opposed to each other and cheered each others bravery. The title for this painting comes from a song of that period with the same title…

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With a pipe in his mouth sat a handsome young blade,

And a song he was singing so gaily,

His name was Pat Murphy of the Irish Brigade

And he sang of the land of Shillelagh.

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The day after battle, the dead lay in heaps

Pat Murphy lay bleeding and gory,

With a hole in his breast from some enemy's ball

Had ended his passion for glory,

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No more in the camps will his letters be read

Nor his voice be heard singing so gaily

For he died far away from the friends that he loved

And far from the land of shillelagh.

"Sean Dempsey and the Rare Auld Times" by Bernie Rosage Jr.

"Sean Dempsey and the Rare Auld Times"

30x24" oil on stretched canvas

SOLD ~ PRIVATE COLLECTION

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This painting was inspired by a couple of photos I took while in Ireland in addition to one of my favorite Irish songs. Photo #1 was a Dublin pub sign that read "Guinness and Dublin in the Rare Auld Times"... Photo #2 was actually taken in Galway City of this old salt enjoying a pint of the black stuff outside a Galway pub. I added the harp for it’s significance as Ireland’s official national symbol and the trademark logo of Guinness. The name for the piece comes from one of my favorite Irish folk songs... "Dublin in the Rare Auld Times" which mentions Sean Demsey... thus the title for this painting. This painting is special to me because it was one of the first in the collection and old Sean looked over my shoulder as I worked at my easel on the rest of the series.

"City Hall Clock Tower #1, New Bern, NC... A View from Craven Street" by Bernie Rosage Jr.

"City Hall Clock Tower #1, New Bern, NC... A View from Craven Street"... 8x6" Oil on Panel, en plein aire, 9-2008.

SOLD ...

PRIVATE COLLECTION...

Wilmington, NC

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Several plein air artists from Eastern North Carolina (myself included) converged on the historic and beautiful town of New Bern, North Carolina to take part in the IPAP (International Plein Air Painters) 6th Annual Worldwide Paint Out. Plein air painters from all over the world agreed to meet in various locations all over the globe to plein air paint on September 5, 6, and 7. This special gathering is to help promote the unique art of painting "en plein aire"... a French term that translates... "in open air". This is my first of several paintings that weekend.

"100% Cotton" by Bernie Rosage Jr.

SOLD...Vincent, OH... Thanks Carol!

"100% Cotton"... 14x11" Oil on canvas, painted alla prima from life, Bernie Rosage Jr., 2009. Cick on image to enlarge...
$300 unframed
$15 S&H

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Growing up in the coastal plains region of North Carolina snow is something I see once a year if I'm lucky. Cotton fields with their white expanse are as close as I get. I set up this small branch of cotton in a "Ball" jar with an old iron in the studio and painted it from life. Why cotton?... It's conflicting textures of roughness and smoothness and the mere fact that most people don't know what cotton looks or grows like were the motivating factors behind this one. I hope you enjoy it... cotton still makes me think of snow.