Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 90" x 114"
Date: 1991-1992
Location: Collection of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 20” x 36”
Date: 1978
Location: The Westmoreland Museum of American Art
Featuring in the current exhibit, Pennsylvania in Progress, on view through November 2025.
Featured as part of the 2025 “Art in Bloom” floral competition.
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 30” x 40”
Date: 2021
Location: Collection of Katelynd Gibbons
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas (painted on site)
Size: 36" x 36"
Date: 1996
Location: Private Collection
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 2023
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 12” x 12”
Date: 2021
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas (painted on site)
Size: 16” x 20”
Location: Private Collection
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 16" x 20"
Date: 2024
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas (painted on site)
Size: 56" x 56"
Date: 1995
Location: Steve & Carolyn Graffam Collection, Pittsburgh, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 36” x 48”
Date: 2024
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 65” x 82”
Date: 2024
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 38.5'' x 56.5”
Date: 1987
Location: Private Collection
Medium: Oil on Canvas (painted on site)
Size: 8” x 10”
Date: 2025
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 20.5” x 20.5”
Date: 2019
Location: Collection of Katelynd Gibbons
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 36" x 48"
Date: 2003
Location: Weil Collection, Sacramento, CA
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 24” x 30”
Date: 2023
Location: Private Collection
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 24” x 30”
Date: 2023
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas (painted on site)
Size: 12" x 16"
Date: 1983
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas (painted on site)
Size: 30" x 40"
Date: 1996
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 65" x 85"
Date: 2004
Location: The McChesney's Collection, Ligonier, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas (started on site)
Size: 48" x 60"
Date: 2006
Location: Private Collection, Austin, Texas
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 60" x 72"
Date: 1982
Location: Carnegie Museum of Art, Permanent Collection
Medium: Oil on Canvas (painted on site)
Size: 12" x 16"
Date: 1998
Location: Private Collection
Medium: Oil on Canvas (painted on site)
Date: 2013
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 2007
Location: Private Collection
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 96" x 120"
Date: 1992
Location: Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Permanent Collection
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 40" x 50"
Date: 1999
Location: The Katzen Collection, Pittsburgh, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas (painted on site)
Size: 24" x 30"
Date: 1988
Location: Jollee Catzanara Collection, Oakmont, PA
Artist’s Description:
I traveled to Spain to go to the Prado to see Velasquez’s painting, Las Meninas. While there, I was struck by another Velasquez painting titled Aesop and thought I would like to respond with a painting of my own that dealt with issues I saw in his masterpiece. This is how Aesop was started. As I worked, I read from the book “Venus in Exile” by Wendy Steiner and realized that, in many ways, I was also dealing with contemporary issues of art and society. These statements struck me as important:
‘Among the myriad issues surrounding beauty…is the female subject, so long its primary symbol in art. Avant-garde modernists were often repulsed by this symbolism. Indeed, the history of twentieth-century elite art is in many respects a history of resistance to the female subject as a symbol of beauty; this resistance, in its turn, is related to real world struggles during the past century, the past two centuries, in fact—as society learned (and continues to learn) to consider women fully human. In age old fables about female beauty, the fair maiden created hierarchy and competition…the problem is how to imagine female beauty in art of outside it, without invoking stories of dominance, victimization, and false consciousness.’
An Explanation of Aesop, 2004 - Bud Gibbons
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 82" x 65"
Date: 2004
Location: Collection of the Artist
Elsie M. Coons Award, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh 99th Annual Exhibition
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 58” x 96”
Date: 2009
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 60" x 72"
Date: 1995
Location: Collection of Pittsburgh Public Schools (100 Friends of Art)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 1988
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 52" x 40"
Date: 1990
Location: LaFond Collection, Pittsburgh, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 1984
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 1998
Location: Collection of Katelynd Gibbons
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 65" x 82"
Date: 1997
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 40" x 50"
Date: 1996
Location: H.Booth Collection
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 47” x 37”
Date: 1987
Location: Friends of Art Collection for Pittsburgh Public Schools
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 48" x 36"
Date: 1976
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 40" x 50"
Date: 1999
Location: Gorsha Collection, Pittsburgh, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 82" x 65"
Date: 2007
Location: Collection of the Artist
Painted on site
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 48" x 60"
Date: 1977
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 30" x 28"
Date: 1991
Location: Collection of the Artist
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh 100th Annual Exhibition
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 2010
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 1978
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 82" x 65"
Date: 1997
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 1970
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 24" x 18"
Date: 1984
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 72" x 54"
Date: 1978
Location: Katzen Collection, Pittsburgh, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 65" x 65"
Date: 2005
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 2017
Location: Collection of the Kolakowski Family
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 1987
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 20" x 16"
Date: 1985
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 36" x 48"
Date: 2001
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 1990
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 1997
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 72" x 48 1/8"
Date: 1992
Location: Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Permanent Collection
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 20" x 16"
Date: 2007
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 36" x 16"
Date: 2001
Location: Moeller Collection, Pittsburgh, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 20" x 16"
Date: 2003
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 20" x 16"
Date: 2006
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 24" x 12"
Date: 2007
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 20" x 16"
Date: 2006
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 20" x 16"
Date: 2006
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 14" x 12"
Date: 1977
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 1997
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 2002
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 20" x 16"
Date: 2004
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Date: 2002
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 14" x 12"
Date: 2010
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 2021
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 36” x 36”
Date: 2025
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 2023
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 2018
Location: Collection of Lindsey Patterson
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 12”x8”
Date: 2013
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 1998
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 1998
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 2023
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 12" x 16"
Date: 2004
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 18" x 14"
Date: 2007
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 8" x 10"
Date: 2007
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 24" x 18"
Date: 2006
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Date: 2023
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 2023
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 20" x 30"
Date: 2006
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 2007
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 1988
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 20" x 16"
Date: 2006
Location: Persad Collection, Pittsburgh, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 2007
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 8" x 10"
Date: 2006
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 8" x 10"
Date: 2005
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 8" x 10"
Date: 2006
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 8" x 10"
Date: 2005
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 8" x 10"
Date: 2006
Location: Collection of the Artist
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 8" x 10"
Date: 2007
Location: Collection of the Artist