After weeks of refusing the strongly suggested offer to use this easel I finally rolled it over to my painting spot today.

This is my father’s easel given to him by his teacher and mentor, Walter Stuempfig . It was one of Stuempfig’s easels that he painted on himself in his Philadelphia Studio while he was a professor at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

I had to say a little prayer and try not to cry before I put my in progress painting on the ledge. There is so much history connected to this one tool.

My in -progress painting on the sturdier easel.