Helen Canvas Print

My mother, age 21 in 1932. She was looking down at my father who was seated and holding my new-born brother David. My two-year-old sister Elwanda is standing in front of my father. It would be another 5 years before my brother Gary would join the family and another 10 years before I arrived. Mother loved white iris's, she gave us some years ago and we planted them in our backyard. I painted this painting to celebrate Mother's Day on Mother's Day, 2016, 20 years after she died.

In 1969, Monte Toon began his career as a watercolorist. He credits the late Charles Sanderson of Wichita, Kansas, with setting him on his life-long path of watercolor painting. Sanderson inspired new approaches and techniques. Later, the works of Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth and Edward Hopper would influence Toon's work. More than 54 years experience has defined Toon's style in his exclusive use of watercolor. In 1991, a turning point occurred in Toon's work. Travels in Canada, New England and the east coast broadened his range of subject matter. By setting goals and directions of purpose, Monte enhanced and elevated his works to new heights resulting in numerous solo shows of merit. He refers to this change as a re-dedication to...