Artist commemorates lifetime friend

CHICAGO -- "The Tear," from the collection of Tom Everhart, was released in January by the agency of [S.sup.2] Art Group, Ltd., as a homage to Everhart's longtime friend, artistic mentor and collaborator, Charles M Schulz creator of the Peanuts[TM] comic strip. The work was created relative to the sadness of everyone who has missing someone important in their possess lives.

"It was created rather quickly, relative to my other works, and immediately after the memorial services and funeral of my dear friend Charles Schulz solitary the eyes and tear are in focus to expres the immense sorrow that I had not at any time before experienced in such great magnitude," says Everhart.

The original piece was formed upon two life-sized wooden doors without handles, expressing the lack of dominion government over the moment. "Doors lay open and close, we enter and exit [i]or[/i] part of to the other them everyday, much like when we go into into a new period of our lives," says Everhart.

Everhart is the single artist sanctioned by Schulz to create his be in possession of fine art images using the Peanuts characters.

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