Hi there. Roughly a year ago I was visiting my mother and I came across an old index card file box full of index cards. These cards were my Grandfather's records of his lifetime of oil paintings. I felt like I had found a secret scavenger hunt map and I couldn't resist the temptation to locate and photograph as many of these paintings as possible. Each of the index cards in this file has information pertaining to one of his paintings. The cards are filed numerically and I have discovered over this past year that my grandfather almost always wrote the associated number on the back of the actual painting. The index cards contain a variety of information including a painting title, the painting size, the date painted, the location and subject matter of the painting, a list of art shows the painting was shown at, and often times the first buyer. With this information my goal is to locate, identify, photograph, and catelog his oil paintings. At the same time I would like to share the information that I have with the owners of his paintings so that information can travel through time with his artwork.

This is my first entry to this blog. Over the past year I have located nearly 100 of his roughly 350 oil paintings and I have had the opportunity to take High-Resolution photographs of 58 them. What a fabulous treasure hunt it has been already. Over the next weeks and months I will chat more about this past year’s search adventures and details and will hopefully be adding posts about new finds and photograph results. Thanks for visiting this site and feel free to reach out to me if you have any information you would like to share….