OLD PLANTATION HOUSE

Old Plantation House, 10 x 14 inch watercolor painting by George C. Clark    Collection of the Artist

 IF YOU STOOD ON THE BERM (DEFENSIVE EARTHWORK) AROUND BRAVO BATTERY'S COMPOUND, YOU COULD SEE THIS BUILDING A LITTLE OVER A KILOMETER AWAY DOWN THE ROAD TOWARD PHUOC BINH.  BEFORE THE WAR, THE HIGHLANDS AROUND HERE HAD ALL BEEN RUBBER PLANTATIONS.  NOW WHEN SHELLS EXPLODED IN THE FOREST THE TREES BLED LATEX THAT NO ONE HARVESTED.

Comment:

This is one of the first Vietnam paintings I did, for the 1985 exhibition at Skokie Public Library.