Artwork / Archives / 2003 / Don McEwen
![commissioned portrait of Don McEwen, Portland, Oregon](/images/2003/2003Don.jpg)
Don McEwen
2003
acrylic on canvas
36 x 24 inches
I created this portrait without ever meeting the subject, something that I’ve only done a few times in my career and only when the subject is deceased, as was the case here. Another posthumous portrait I painted was this one of my cousin, but, in that case, I knew the subject and I worked from a photo which I had taken of him myself.