So folks, since getting this blog spot up and running two days ago cousin Ellen W and sister Jean flew in from out of state to work on the interviews and photographing the paintings with Linda.  Jean brought a DVD containing photographs of the paintings she and Mom have.  Linda and Jean spent Wednesday evening perfecting their photographing techniques which involved light umbrellas, getting the angles right, lining up the painting, setting the correct f-stop, shutter speed, etc. so when we come to your house, photographing will go off without a hitch.

This morning the team trekked to Thor and Audry’s to photograph and interview.  (Did we mention that Ellen W will be writing about Harry to go with the catalog of his paintings?)  While Jean and Linda photographed the paintings which included Anna’s and Raeline and Al’s Ellen W interviewed Thor.  She and I both had recorders going.  I’m going to run my recording through a transcriber I found on the internet (cross your fingers that it works) to see if that will augment the copious notes Ellen took.  (From the looks of it, I’m not sure she would need the recordings – she’s such an expert).

Take a look at the gallery of some of the photographs that have been shot as well as one with Harry in front of the paintings he showed at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis around 1970.  We’ll be adding to the gallery as we go along.

We want to thank Raeline and Al for bringing their works over to Thor’s.  It was a great help to have them in one place.  As Linda indicated in her email, please give her a call if you want to set up a time for us to visit you to photograph your paintings for the catalog.