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Jaime Ellsworth
Jaime Ellsworth - Made in China The Story of Pagau
Jaime Ellsworth
September 12, 2007 - October 7. 2007
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

"Made in China" The story of Pagau.


Playful and whimsical, Ellsworth's paintings of Pagau are views of this rescued puppy as it discovers life in America.


Pagau was born in China and was rescued as a tiny puppy by Jaime's daughter who was teaching in a poor, rural area of Hunan Province. To spare his life, she purchased him for several Yuan or two American dollars and found herself the owner of a puppy in an area with no veterinarians, pet shops or even pet food for hundreds of miles. After many suggestions, her students named him Pagau which means black dog in Mandarin Chinese. She raised him on pork, vegetables and rice and a few care packages from family.

Over the next few months it became apparent that getting him home to the US would not be easy but Nicky took on the challenge and after traveling hundreds of miles and zigzagging all around China for official papers to be stamped, Pagau and Nicky finally made it to Beijing for his final agricultural inspection with just hours to spare before their flight home. After 60 hours of traveling on buses, trains, airplanes, taxis and finally a ferry to the San Juan Islands in Washington State, he arrived home at last with his head held high and tail wagging and was then just five months old.

He happily settled into his new home and it wasn't long before they noticed he was growing up to look exactly like an imaginary dog she had been painting for about a year. Jaime began to observe and paint Pagau's moments of contemplation and his story now unfolds visually through his discoveries and adventures. There are now over sixty paintings in the series and Pagau is two years old and rice is still his favorite food.


Additional works by Ellsworth are lovely little encaustics of more dogs and large oils of horses.

Companion
40 x 30 Inches  Oil on Canvas
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Open
40 x 30 Inches  Oil on Canvas
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Peek
40 x 30 Inches  Oil on Canvas
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Front Door
40 x 30 Inches  Oil on Canvas
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Arrived
40 x 30 Inches  Oil on Canvas
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Joy Ride
40 x 30 Inches  Oil on Canvas
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Post
40 x 30 Inches  Oil on Canvas
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Wellies
40 x 30 Inches  Oil on Canvas
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Walk the Dog
24 x 30 Inches  Oil on Canvas
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Pale Rider
32 x 48 Inches  Oil on Board
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Turnout I
8 x 24 Inches  Oil on Canvas
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Turnout II
8 x 24 Inches  Oil on Canvas
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Follow
48 x 48 Inches  Oil on Board
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Deep Water
11 x 15 Inches  Encaustic on Board
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Tete-a-Tete
14 x 10 Inches  Encaustic on Board
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Red Boots
8 x 10 Inches  Encaustic on Board
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Dog Years
8 x 14 Inches  Encaustic on Board
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Coterie
9 x 9 Inches  Encaustic on Board
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Bond
8 x 10.5 Inches  Encaustic on Board
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