Lot 80182: Tom Heflins Just Quiet Raining Signed Painting & Book

Artist: Tom HeflinsTitle: Thurs. May 4, 1972: Just Quiet Raining 5:30Medium: Painting on boardSignature: Signed by artist, lower rightPresentation: Metal frameDate: 1972Image size: 16" x 20"Condition: ExcellentThe painting comes with a book titled "Quiet Reading" that contains several of his pictures of the paintings he has has done along with a description about them.  There is also a brief biography about Tom in the beginning and on inside, their was a dedication to Robert Chase Sr. and was signed by the artist.BiographyTom Heflin was born in the small town of Monticello, Arkansas 50 miles from the Louisianna line.  He spent much of his childhood alone exploring a nearby region known as The Seven Devil Swamps.  Hunting and fishing was an obsession.  The schools at that time did not have art classes, but that did not deter him from drawing.  When his family moved north in search for employment he had the good fortune to find encouragement from his seventh-grade teacher, Marie Markham. For the first time in Heflin's life he thought he might be worth something after all.  Active in three sports, Tom received a football scholarship from  the Northeast University of Louisiana, Monroe.  After finding out the University did not have a fine-arts major, Heflin went North again to the Art Institute of Chicago. In the spring of 1970 Heflin launched his career as a fine artist.  It was a risky venture with a wife and five children, but with tenacity and a little luck Tom has continued to work as a full time artist for over 35 years.  Heflin's penchant is to challenge himself with different mediums and styles. Never being satisfied with what he calls "recipe" painting, he moves from detailed Realism to Surrealism to total Abstraction.**Retrieved from: