Funny story about this painting: The Vice President of Nigaraua, Jose Rizzo was at my mother's house, don't ask, and he saw this painting. The name at the bottom said Statom, so he asked if she had paited it. She said "no", that I had and he said how much he admired it. I only heard about it later and I thought "Jeez mom, why didn't you take it off the wall and say "Here, as a token of our hospitality." I could have had a painting hanging in the Presidential Palace, or whatever they've got in Nigaragua". She told me that she couldn't give away a painting I had given her. I could always paint her another.