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Monumental Follies

Plein-air drawings,

studio works on paper

pictorial essays

on the afterlife of monuments

For over a decade, Howard Skrill has been making paintings and drawings, primarily on paper, that explore the ghosts that arise as effigies, particularly public monuments in the US, force the past's often bizarre ideas into the present. These permanent additions to the places we frequent, even to buy a gallon of milk,  prompt shrugs one day and outrage the next. They are the ghosts that haunt our communities. We prefer to ignore them but sometimes they force us into battles...

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Brooklyn Columbus in snow, 30" x 15 1/2", gouache, pencil on paper mounted on board, 2026

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Dyker mashed head 1, 15 x 19 1/2", (at greatest length), gouache, pencil, acrylic on paper mounted on board with screws, 2025

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Natural History Figure (Ab..) and beheaded Portsmouth Confederate, 12" x 38" (at greatest length)

Lady Forward (magazine cover)

gouache, oil stick, oil pastel, chalk pastel, graphite and colored pencil on paper, 23" x 30", 2021

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Removal of Forrest from Memphis, 9" x 30" Ink, gesso, gouache, pencil on paper, ©2019

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Robert E. Lee (inferno and tear - verso), 12 1/2" x 12 1/4", acrylic, gouache and pencil on watercolor paper, 2023

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