Flying Tiger-Pouncing Dragon
$ 1,875.00
16X20
Acrylic
I am proud to say
this painting won an award at Lunacon in New York in 2005. It
depicts a fantasy exaggeration of the teamwork between the Nationalist
Chinese and the A.V.G. (American Volunteer Group) in the second
world war. The American unit, known as the Flying Tigers, flew
on behalf of the Chinese, so their U.S. made Curtiss P-40 B/C Tomahawk fighter planes carried the emblem of China, not
the U.S.A. The emblem is repeated in the clouds. The Dragon, representing
the Chinese Spirit, siezes a Japanese Zero fighter from the tail
of the plane flown by Charles Older of the Hell's Angels unit.
See the plastic
model I built of this aircraft and the Zero fighter in the model
aviation section of the web site.