Don DeLlamas in Postcards 4

Don was a painter of note. His abstracts are much appreciated by his wide range of collectors. His portraits always caught the soul of the personality of his sitter. How cold that all sounds. I met him in 1966.

After a tour hanging out of the door of a gunship in Vietnam, he enrolled in art classes at Southwestern College. Our GI Bills didn’t arrive. In response, he started the Veterans Organization there, and soon we had our pittances in the bank once again. His friends became our friends, and we were a tight bunch of artists and artisans.

He had a series of increasingly successful shows, and a couple of very good galleries, and a pair of really interesting studios. Part time jobs such as hours at Mad Jacks and Radio Shack kept him going between shows. He met a wonderful woman in the 1990’s, and he moved to Bellingham Washington with Georges help.

We have had sporadic contact since then, but it didn’t matter. He was engraved on our hearts with love.

Don’s work at the Scott Milo Gallery

San Diego UT Obit