Help! My wife wants to throw away my painting

[ripcord]

I know I'm posting this in the humor section, but this is 100% true. My wife is insisting that she is throwing out my Charles M Russel painting Return of the Horse Thieves (Renegades Return). I'm sure I don't even need to post a picture for y'all to know what it is. I tried explaining that it was like throwing out a Van Gogh or a da Vinci but she won't listen to reason. I know for a fact that it was displayed in a Wyoming Post Office for many years because I stopped and bought it from a sidewalk rummage sale they had when I was passing through. It's only a print but it has history!

 

[Owen Lucas]

Hide it! Find something of hers that should go in the dumpster?

 

[Pablo]

I know I'm posting this in the humor section, but this is 100% true. My wife is insisting that she is throwing out my Charles M Russel painting Return of the Horse Thieves (Renegades Return). I'm sure I don't even need to post a picture for y'all to know what it is. I tried explaining that it was like throwing out a Van Gogh or a da Vinci but she won't listen to reason. I know for a fact that it was displayed in a Wyoming Post Office for many years because I stopped and bought it from a sidewalk rummage sale they had when I was passing through. It's only a print but it has history!

No, never throw it away.

But seriously you don't have your own office or man cave? How can she control what you hang in there as long as it's not a newdie cutie pic?

 

[ripcord]

No, never throw it away.

But seriously you don't have your own office or man cave? How can she control what you hang in there as long as it's not a newdie cutie pic?

It's been in the dinning room for ages. I guess I could move it out to my little shop, but it's not heated or otherwise a good place for a painting.

 

[350Rocket]

This..

No, never throw it away.

But seriously you don't have your own office or man cave? How can she control what you hang in there as long as it's not a newdie cutie pic?

If it's not good enough for my wife's aesthetic tastes then it's mandated to the garage of my (unfinished) mancave.
But my wife respects my things and would never insist on getting rid of something, especially my 1984 Oldsmobile. One of the reasons I love her so much.

 

[Pablo]

I had this topless native girl pic. Wife said "must go".

I asked which wall? Then I asked where are you going?

 

[Passport1]

Tell her it is important American history.

 

[Reggaemon]

Perfect for the garage.

 

[AZjeff]

Tell her one just like it was worth $1000 on Antiques Roadshow. It's a print not a painting, being in the shop shouldn't hurt it in the PNW.

 

[ripcord]

Tell her it is important American history.

I did. I also told her it was painted by the preeminent American painter. Nope, has to be replaced by a blurry flower painting.

 

[ripcord]

Perfect for the garage.

Sigh. I guess I could put it up behind the bench grinder.

 

[fantastic]

I could understand removing it but throw it away?

 

[LDB]

Put it in the hallway. Put it on the bedroom wall on your side of the bed. Those are common areas and are 50% yours so you say what happens in that 50%. Or if you want to gamble just a bit make a call with both of you on the line to Dr. Laura.

 

[ecotourist]

You can tell her Charlie Russel is internationally famous. That's even true.

Throwing it out would be vandalism.

A song about Charlie Russell by Ian Tyson (a well known Canadian singer and composer) in his early days:


That song inspired my wife to start writing up her family story after 40 years of collection. "Got to get er all down before she goes".

If all else fails give it to someone who would appreciate it.

 

[vavavroom]

Happy wife happy life.

 

[Kira]

Do you have any other framed/displayed art?

I ask because you can easily make a deep frame....aka a frame with room behind the picture for other prints.
It hangs on a wall like any other but stores your other flats while taking up very little room.
You can rotate the art if you like.

Now if you have folders and folders of art under the bed, that's another story.

 

[vwmaniaman]

Send it here. My wife wanted a Charlie Russel print to hang over her piano. She is a great artist in my book.

 

[Recon 1]

I'll take it!

 

[97prizm]

I know I'm posting this in the humor section, but this is 100% true. My wife is insisting that she is throwing out my Charles M Russel painting Return of the Horse Thieves (Renegades Return). I'm sure I don't even need to post a picture for y'all to know what it is. I tried explaining that it was like throwing out a Van Gogh or a da Vinci but she won't listen to reason. I know for a fact that it was displayed in a Wyoming Post Office for many years because I stopped and bought it from a sidewalk rummage sale they had when I was passing through. It's only a print but it has history!

Get it appraised. Is it worth anything? can a local art gallery display it? Some hospitals will display paintings

 

[ripcord]

Get it appraised. Is it worth anything? can a local art gallery display it? Some hospitals will display paintings

Unfortunately it's a print of a very popular painting so it's not worth any money.