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Hillsboro Village. In 1977 I was hitch hiking across America and ended up staying with a girl who lived on Acklen Ave in Hillsboro Village, Nashville Tennessee. Even then it was a cool place to hang around. Legenday songwriter/poet Tom House worked at the bookstore back around that time. I remember finding a hungry pup on the street there once. We hung out for awhile. But we were both in the same boat with nowhere to go. There wasn't much I could do really. I went into a store and spent the last of my money on a package of bologna. I enjoyed watching him eat it and we then went our separate ways. A couple of years ago I was sitting in the cafe Fidos and sketched this scene while looking out the window.

Arthur Barnes is a artist who works in a variety of mediums including ink, watercolor, pastels and oils. He prefers to work directly from life and his favorite subjects are landscapes with an emphasis on nocturnes and scenes of the Erie Canal. Arthur has had little formal training but was fortunate to study a year under Juanita Greene Parks in 1982. She had studied under Reginald Marsh and Robert Brackman. Brackman was a student of Ashcan artist/ teacher Robert Henri. Since that time, Arthur has been on a consistent course of self-training in art with an emphasis on learning through experience much like the Ashcan artists. "You learn to draw. . .by drawing," his teacher often recited. Artists Statement on Nocturnes "Half of our...