Artist: Dr. Walter Pories

Title: Time to Go Home...

Date: 2019

Media: watercolor on paper

Dimensions: 16 3/4" x 20 3/4" (Framed)

Walter J. Pories is a native of Germany who, on repeating the third grade for the third time was prophetically told that he certainly had no talent for art. In spite of that dire assessment, he pursued a major in art at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, courses at the Cleveland Museum of Art and, especially, in the workshops of Tony Couch, one of America's finest watercolor artists. His career in art includes making diagrams for the Yellow Pages, preparing medical illustrations at the University of Rochester and ECU as well as doodling at meetings and painting two kids' bedrooms. He has had two one-man shows: one at the Greenville Museum of Art and another in a remote corner of Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC. Still unable to get a cartoon into the New Yorker, he continues to settle for publications of cartoons in magazines few people read. In addition to his career in art, he still dabbles in surgical and nutritional research. He and his wife, Dr. Mary Ann Rose, have six children and live on a farm with cows, goats, poultry, llamas, deer, foxes, turkeys and even two bears.