Original painting by: Dennis Ashbaugh Pope Blasts Reds Again 1979 Acrylic, sand and felt on canvas 71.5 h x 72 w in (182 x 183 cm) Signed and dated to verso Dennis Ashbaugh 1979 Provenance: Estate of Elaine Kaufman | Doyle, New York | Private Collection Awards and exhibitions Dennis Ashbaugh received a Creative Artists Public Service (CAPS) grant from the New York State Council on the Arts in 1975, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1976. He has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art,[ the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the scetch of the painting was used for the Met, last image), MoMA PS1, the Seattle Art Museum, the Orange County Museum of Art, La Jolla Museum of Art, and the Americas Society. He has exhibited internationally in London, Paris, Brussels, Tehran, Capri, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, and Slovenia.