another one!

Never would I have thought 36 years ago—while getting tossed up the student section during a home football game (again)…that in a few decades I’d be mom to 3 kids who love Notre Dame as much as I do. Clare has had a tough choice among several great schools, but has decided to join Notre Dame’s class of 2026. All this Irish (plus a new large Notre Dame commission) had me set aside the extinct birds for a bit to focus my brushes on the gorgeous Notre Dame campus. Way back when, I painted two D.C. area portfolio calendars, which were a hit but just not sustainable when I became a single mom. But that was quite awhile ago…so I’ve decided to paint 12 Notre Dame scenes—just for fun—and see what the campus bookstore thinks of them when I’m all done. Maybe they’d want to print another calendar, Notre Dame version, use the images another way, or maybe nothing at all and then I’ll have had lots of fun making 12 originals.

Here’s the first, also Notre Dame Avenue, but looking away from the Golden Dome. That statue is the founder of Notre Dame, Father Sorin, but the statue also is known as the demarcation line between North and South Quads in the annual first snowfall snowball fight. Epic (and quite possibly the subject of another painting). I’ll hold onto the originals for now, but prints can be found here: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/looking-down-notre-dame-avenue-anne-lewis.html