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Message:: [QUOTE="Douglas W. Reynolds Jr., post: 1999580, member: 14768"]Hi, I hope I'm not too late to the party! All of the above paintings were by my father, Douglas W. Reynolds, B.F.A. (five-year degree) Yale 1941, M.A. Columbia; the signatures are the same because the artist was the same person; these are very early works (before 1940) and not especially representative of the transitions and growth over the many years of his life; and alas the obituary from the Daily Press is his obituary. I would be happy to give anyone an earful. Contact me, Douglas W. Reynolds, Jr., here s.v.p. The painting with the military figure was in fact dated 1935, and was executed after the Great Hurricane of 1935. My father, then a student at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, volunteered with other students to go down into the Keys to gather the remnants of of the WWI veterans who had been building the Key West railroad (Subject of Ernest Hemingway's essay, "Who Murdered the Vets?"). I assume he made a sketch during the experience and executed the oil painting shortly thereafter. I'm not sure exactly how the painting was acquired by the government--might have been WPA. [/QUOTE]