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Donna Essig original artwork Woman Reclining
Acrylic on canvas
48" x 72"
2023
Henri Rousseau The Dream
80 1/2" x 117 1/2"
1910
Donna Essig original artwork Woman Reclining
Watercolor
40" x 60"
1984
Donna Essig original artwork Woman Reclining
Watercolor
48" x 72"
1984
Donna Essig original artwork Woman Reclining
Watercolor
48" x 72"
1984
Donna Essig original artwork Woman Reclining
Watercolor
48" x 72"
1985
Donna Essig original artwork Woman Reclining
Watercolor
48" x 72"
1985
Donna Essig original artwork Woman Reclining
Watercolor
48" x 72"
1986
Donna Essig original artwork Woman Reclining
Watercolor
48" x 60"
1986
Donna Essig original artwork Woman Reclining
Watercolor
48" x 88"
1986
Donna Essig original artwork Woman Reclining
Watercolor
28" x 48"
1987
Donna Essig original artwork Woman Reclining
Watercolor
32" x 68"
1990
Donna Essig original artwork Woman Reclining
Watercolor
44.5" x 68"
1990
Donna Essig original artwork Woman Reclining
Watercolor
44.5" x 68"
1990
Donna Essig original artwork Woman Reclining
Watercolor
34" x 69"
1992
Donna Essig original artwork Woman Reclining
Watercolor
33" x 65.5"
1997
Donna Essig original artwork Woman Reclining
Watercolor
33" x 66"
1997
Donna Essig original artwork Woman Reclining
Watercolor
9 1/2" x 17 3/8"
1999
Donna Essig original artwork Woman Reclining
Watercolor
44" x 60"
2000
Donna Essig original artwork Woman Reclining
Watercolor
30" x 72"
2012
Donna Essig original artwork Henri Rousseau Sleeping Gypsy The Dream
Acrylic on canvas
48" x 72"
2023

Henri Rousseau's paintings of Sleeping Gypsy and The Dream have influenced my work since I was a child visiting MOMA with my grandmother. The large scale allowed me to enter the world of the painter. Looking back I see how many paintings I have done of women dreaming along a riverbed often with a large animal behind her.