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April 20, 2008
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Oils on panel
14 x 12"
1999

My favorite author. There is no color photo of this. My reference is a B & W photo on the back of the book "The Early Ayn Rand". It's a photo of her as she looked just having arrived in the United States from the Soviet Union (she was born in Russia), never to return, as she loved the United States passionately even before she got the hell out of the Soviet Union. Drab dress with a little tear, the kind of dress her hear-to-for wealthy family was reduced to after the Soviets destroyed Russia, nationalizing her father's pharmacy. I imagined all the color, and that surely she would have found a way to put some color, a flower or something in that torn dress.

I don't imagine anyone would care about this painting unless they know her story. The greatest author and philosopher in history. Not a pretty woman, but she made a point of making herself attractive as she could during her great life.

By the way her book "Atlas Shrugged" is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club.

My portrait is featured in the new book The Selfish Path to Romance. [link]
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~TransformerRobot Apr 6, 2013   General Artist
Correct me if I'm wrong, but she was a heartless bitch who believed in stepping on everybody else just for the sake of one's own ego, and this has made her a big influence on conservatives.
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Mood: Disgust ~w1ng1 Mar 25, 2013
glad she's dead. selfish b*tch.
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~theoneiota May 6, 2012  Professional Filmographer
this is amazing.
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*hank1 May 7, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
Thank you very much.
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~KJandDDM Apr 23, 2012
An excellent portrait. I first read 'The Fountainhead' when I was fourteen years of age and dove right into 'Atlas Shrugged,' as soon as I finished. The two lessons I came away with were to think for myself, and to never let another person's experiences and assumptions hinder my progress.
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*hank1 Apr 24, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
Thank you very much.

And you took away from these two books just exactly what was intended by the great writer, Ayn Rand.
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Mood: Love ~Jszym Mar 29, 2012
Remarkable, I can feel the wanderlust and the passion she so madly pursued.
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*hank1 Mar 30, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
Thank you so much.
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*Morbido13 Jan 24, 2012  Professional General Artist
fantastic Portrait of a Fantastic Woman
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*hank1 Jan 26, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
Thank you very much, Pedro. You've read Ayn Rand?
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