Statement of the Artist

The company, Recollections 54, is a sole proprietorship established to market reproductions of the art of David Tripp.  The subjects on display are divided by the artist’s two primary “recollections”:

1. The watercolor subjects of small-town America stand as monuments of a cultural environment that fades from our American landscape, though not from our memories.

2. The collage assemblies of philosophers and writers celebrate the thinkers and visionaries whose creative expressions have improved our humanity.

Dr. David M. Tripp is Teacher of Art History and Philosophy at Martin High School, Arlington, TX, and Adjunct Professor of Religion and Humanities at Texas Wesleyan University.  For the past fifteen years, he has developed his watercolor and collage theory to embrace yesterday’s communities and intellectual heroes kept alive by our visual memories and academic sentiments.