Owen

Oil on Canvas 21.25" x 24" (with frame)

1996

The Welsh poet Wilfred Owen represents a different kind of great warrior ultimately consumed by the violence that defined him. His great contribution, however, was not the result of his skills at combat, but his ability to wrench the words for the pain he lived, a young man torn in the calculated slaughter of modern warfare, and craft it into enduring verse that still speaks with universal eloquence. He is pictured here at his death in combat, one week before the armistice, relinquishing his pistol, whistle and his muse to death who has replaced his scythe with a more contemporary tool of grim harvest.

Private collection.

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