Trinity Church Beverly Chicago (2012) - ORIGINAL
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24" x 30"
Acrylic on canvas
The idea for this painting came from the occasion of my best friend Charlie Bowers' 50th wedding anniversary. He met his wife through Trinity church. The painting shows Trinity United Methodist Church in Beverly Hills Chicago, the church we grew up in at 99th and Winchester on Chicago's South Side. Beverly Hills is a community in the city of Chicago and the church is thus 99 blocks south of downtown. Several photos and looks were considered; Edris Hoover supplied the best. She has been a mainstay of this church; also her father John Bailey years ago supported youth in winter paper drives and whatever else was needed. The wonderful Gothic structure is still a church but the congregation is small and has been overtaken by the growth of the local Catholic Parish.
Parts of the building are now rented out. The church auditorium has seen many youth operettas (for which we sold program ads by peddling our bikes truly miles away to find businesses some of whom probably never heard of the church). In its heyday the local public grade school, Sutherland, dismissed early for the Trinity bazaar (and in those years a slide show of the nativity was shown in the school). The church was strongest under pastor Kermit Long and for a time my mother was church secretary. We brought in outside speakers for community events and I recall coming back from Wisconsin in a blizzard so my friend Charlie (who later became a Navy pilot) could hear Werner Von
Braun who was making a national tour.
Acrylic on canvas
The idea for this painting came from the occasion of my best friend Charlie Bowers' 50th wedding anniversary. He met his wife through Trinity church. The painting shows Trinity United Methodist Church in Beverly Hills Chicago, the church we grew up in at 99th and Winchester on Chicago's South Side. Beverly Hills is a community in the city of Chicago and the church is thus 99 blocks south of downtown. Several photos and looks were considered; Edris Hoover supplied the best. She has been a mainstay of this church; also her father John Bailey years ago supported youth in winter paper drives and whatever else was needed. The wonderful Gothic structure is still a church but the congregation is small and has been overtaken by the growth of the local Catholic Parish.
Parts of the building are now rented out. The church auditorium has seen many youth operettas (for which we sold program ads by peddling our bikes truly miles away to find businesses some of whom probably never heard of the church). In its heyday the local public grade school, Sutherland, dismissed early for the Trinity bazaar (and in those years a slide show of the nativity was shown in the school). The church was strongest under pastor Kermit Long and for a time my mother was church secretary. We brought in outside speakers for community events and I recall coming back from Wisconsin in a blizzard so my friend Charlie (who later became a Navy pilot) could hear Werner Von
Braun who was making a national tour.
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