Jonathan Field Contemporary Artist 

Maxwell's Demon [End Time]

Maxwell's Demon [The Slipper Tongue, after W. H. D. Koerner], steel pins & rubber on board, 94” x 74 ”

George Bush's favorite painting is W.H.D. Koerner's A Charge to Keep, and he identifies with the lead horseman (whom he says he resembles). But as Jacob Weisberg writes in his recent book The Bush Tragedy, the President has mistaken the meaning of this painting. Koerner executed it to illustrate a Western short story entitled "The Slipper Tongue," in which a smooth-talking horse thief is caught and then escapes a lynch mob in the Sand Hills of Nebraska.