The F.B. Valentine website (fbvalentine.org) has added twenty four additional water color paintings and two drawings since the first newsletter in December 2015. There are now 42 paintings provided by friends and family. One interesting story involves Greg Dake Jr. and his wife Julia. It was Julia whose follow-up found the beautiful “Oak at the Cross Roads” painting in the basement of the Hamburg Charlotte Ave. Elementary when Initial reports indicated the picture had been destroyed when the school experienced flooding some years ago. Another set of paintings were found through Daniel Kraft, my father’s nephew, living in Orchard Park, New York, and his niece, Dianna Bodden, living in Georgia. These pictures included paintings of the Buffalo waterfront, Buffalo’s Delaware Park, urban scenes from Buffalo, and the Buffalo Yacht Club. In addition Meibohm Fine Arts of East Aurora, N. Y. provided a photo of a beautiful painting of the Otte’s Farm on Route 219 going south out of Hamburg toward Boston, N.Y..
Maggie MacTiernan, my niece, the website developer, has placed these additional paintings on the website and divided the paintings into several categories (landscapes, Buffalo waterfront, seascape from Rockport and Cape Ann, MA, sketches, and miscellaneous). She will soon be adding a set of Valentine Family Christmas cards.
If you know of anyone who has or might know the whereabouts of paintings by F.B. Valentine, please contact me at cvalentine@mindspring.com.
Have a great spring. Carl Valentine