The late minister Henry Ward Beecher once said, “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” A glimpse of those creative souls can be seen in the form of ...

It's a simple desert scene: cacti, red dirt, yawning blue sky. The brushwork is unschooled, even naive. Surrealism may be a distant influence. The painting would be of little interest, if not for the ...