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Gray Stone Press
| LIMITED EDITION COLLECTOR PRINTS |
Chuck Ren - Western Era continued
It was seven years before Chuck and I met in person but we found that we
had a lot of interests in common and talked on the phone almost every
working day. Movies and sports were our two main subjects. In 1980 I
believe it would have been safe to say that I had seen every talkie that had
come out of Hollywood and most of the silent films.. Chuck could go me one
better. He had not only seen the movies but could tell you who was
nominated for best supporting actor in any year, both male and female. In
sports he could tell you the entire roster of the 1946 Brooklyn Dodgers
(baseball for any of you young people that didn't know the Dodgers started
in Brooklyn) or any of the NBA teams. If he had been on a trivia show with
either of these subjects he would have won hands down.. I called him one
day and told him I had seen a movie on TV the night before. I told him that I
didn't know the name of the movie but there was a woman in it that was one
of the prettiest I had seen hit Hollywood in a long time. Her part wasn't very
big and I had never seen her before. I described one of the few scenes she
was in. A man follows her out of a tunnel onto the beach. He catches up
with her and the camera starts circling them showing only their head and
shoulders. Without hesitation Chuck replied "The movie is "Body Double",
the woman is Debra Shelton and she's a doll".
One day when Chuck and I were talking on the phone he told me that the
"World Championship Rodeo" was coming to Los Angles and he had made
arrangements to go and take photographs to use as reference. The first
time I talked to him after the rodeo I asked if he had got some good
reference material. He told me that he couldn't get close enough in the
arena for any of the events but they let him in the livestock area and he got
a really neat photograph of four old bulls that were together in a pen. He
said he was going to paint it just for kicks. After he finished the painting, he
sent it to me. Like Chuck, I thought it was a really neat painting and wanted
to put it out as a print. I asked what he thought the title should be. He said
that since it was a championship rodeo why don't we call it "The Champions".
After we released the print I got a call one day from a bull rider who was on
the championship circuit that year. He said that he had bought the print and
would like to know more about Chuck. In the conversation he told me that all
four bulls were "World Champion Bulls" and assured me that he was very
well acquainted with all of them. He even told me their names but that was a
long time ago and I didn't write them down. We only did 500 prints and it has
become one of the hardest of Chuck's prints to find and still one of my
favorites.
had a lot of interests in common and talked on the phone almost every
working day. Movies and sports were our two main subjects. In 1980 I
believe it would have been safe to say that I had seen every talkie that had
come out of Hollywood and most of the silent films.. Chuck could go me one
better. He had not only seen the movies but could tell you who was
nominated for best supporting actor in any year, both male and female. In
sports he could tell you the entire roster of the 1946 Brooklyn Dodgers
(baseball for any of you young people that didn't know the Dodgers started
in Brooklyn) or any of the NBA teams. If he had been on a trivia show with
either of these subjects he would have won hands down.. I called him one
day and told him I had seen a movie on TV the night before. I told him that I
didn't know the name of the movie but there was a woman in it that was one
of the prettiest I had seen hit Hollywood in a long time. Her part wasn't very
big and I had never seen her before. I described one of the few scenes she
was in. A man follows her out of a tunnel onto the beach. He catches up
with her and the camera starts circling them showing only their head and
shoulders. Without hesitation Chuck replied "The movie is "Body Double",
the woman is Debra Shelton and she's a doll".
One day when Chuck and I were talking on the phone he told me that the
"World Championship Rodeo" was coming to Los Angles and he had made
arrangements to go and take photographs to use as reference. The first
time I talked to him after the rodeo I asked if he had got some good
reference material. He told me that he couldn't get close enough in the
arena for any of the events but they let him in the livestock area and he got
a really neat photograph of four old bulls that were together in a pen. He
said he was going to paint it just for kicks. After he finished the painting, he
sent it to me. Like Chuck, I thought it was a really neat painting and wanted
to put it out as a print. I asked what he thought the title should be. He said
that since it was a championship rodeo why don't we call it "The Champions".
After we released the print I got a call one day from a bull rider who was on
the championship circuit that year. He said that he had bought the print and
would like to know more about Chuck. In the conversation he told me that all
four bulls were "World Champion Bulls" and assured me that he was very
well acquainted with all of them. He even told me their names but that was a
long time ago and I didn't write them down. We only did 500 prints and it has
become one of the hardest of Chuck's prints to find and still one of my
favorites.
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The Champions
| on to Western Era Prints by Chuck Ren |
