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Planned Economy vs. Top Mountain Goat, also known as The Top Goat is the Economist Jumping into the Unknown, shows a mountain scene with high craggy cliffs painted in light green and brown with a yellow sky. On the left is a goat running toward a…

In Serenity three figures surround a large decorated planter holding pale blue, blue and light-orange, and yellow orchids. There is also a tall yellow flower and a small flower with turquoise and red petals. The planter is decorated with triangular…

Bleeding Hearts, as the title suggests, depicts multiple stems of bleeding hearts painted in red with white highlights. The arrangement of the flowers is haphazard with flowers spreading in all directions. The flowers are placed against a light…

In Orchids in a Green Vase light shines through the densely painted warm blue sky onto a vase with a long neck holding three orange orchids with a purple centers. The vase is decorated with alternating green and dark blue bands. Fetherston decorated…

In Orchids in a Green Vase light shines through the densely painted warm blue sky onto a vase with a long neck holding three orange orchids with a purple centers. The vase is decorated with alternating green and dark blue bands. Fetherston decorated…

This painting shows a river scene with a green sampan and rower. There are five blue arched shaped abstract bridges, and white swans scattered around. There are also green, pink, and brown willow branches coming into the picture from the top. On…

In L'Aurore clouds drip down from the sky above an abstract landscape. After it was applied and while it was still wet, the paint was allowed to run, creating the impression of mountains or hills. At the bottom left hand corner of the foreground…

A light orange, white, beige, and green background establishes an ambiguous setting for this painting of an orchid. The orchid with pink and light blue flowers fills the bottom portion of the painting. While the colors of the flowers vary, they…

The ground of this painting has large sweeping colorful brushstrokes that span the work. The rain pours down is the form of dripped paint that has been allowed to run down the canvas. The rainy area dominates the canvas while the flowers are pushed…

In this large work Fetherston again uses the technique of allowing the paint to run down the canvas to create ambiguity. But this time the artist has allowed the paint to drip and then flipped the painting upside down, so that the it appears to be…

The composition shows a scene of three figures within a wide archway that looks out toward a classically-designed garden. Standing on top of the archway is a nude figure, and above her is a branch with round leaves. She bends down towards the left…

Dawn Over the Forest was once part of Fetherston’s Exit the Bear from which it was cut and repainted. The small trees and other gray-green-blue vegetation in the foreground were part of the original composition although the artist added a line…

This is a painting of a vast oceanscape with dancing figures and birds. Three birds fly from left to right, gradually rising higher and becoming larger. Three of the eight small dancing figures along the bottom, wear red tutus. A small group of…

In the center of My Guiding Spirits a man’s head looks out directly at the the viewer. On either side are profile portrait busts of Dante and Voltaire. Fetherston has described this composition as representing, "Dante, my great grandfather Gideon…

In the foreground of this work is a grouping of four types of flowers, including cream-orange orchids and whiter orange orchids, jack-in-the-pulpits, and larger pink orchids. A transparent butterfly is resting on a petal of the pink orchid. There…

This is the only mixed media piece in Fetherson's oeuvre. Sewn onto this canvas is a collection of 73 arrowheads, plus a frog-shaped Native American sedative pipe, identified by a handwritten inscription by Fetherston. There are many smaller…

This painting shows a breaking wave. Behind it in the upper left hand corner are green forms suggesting pine trees. Plants growing out of sandy brown soil are also visible in the foreground. The paint here is extremely thick, creating a richly…

There are red and purple buds dispersed in diagonal lines floating throughout the painting, and in the foreground are orange and yellow larger flowers. In the bottom left hand corner is a grouping of pink flowers on a green ground. The background…