Bostelle: A History

Bostelle's ramshackle studio, packed with paintings old and new, as it looked in about 2000.

The garden of Bostelle's shadow sculptures.

'Severance of Communication' was painted in the 1950s. It marked Bostelle's turning point toward shadows.

A nude sculpture from the 1950s (above) and the 1980s (left). Bostelle's gift for rendering the essence of a human figure never faltered.

The central panel in Bostelle's studio was an autobiographical collection of people he had known, watched over by Death, seated in the central chair.

'Warrior,' a tribute to the thousands of fallen Native Americans throughout history.

'Blue Nude Dressing.'

'Cats,' making use of negative space and the shadow.

'The Operation,' one of Bostelle's later paintings.

Above: Bostelle's self-made 'shadow' memorial marker stands in the garden by his former studio. At left: the shadow markers for Bostelle's family stand by him in the garden.

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