Paul Zapatka Artist
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Beach in HarwichPort
2011 oil 30.00 x 40.00 inches $450

Boats in Orleans Cove
2013 acrylic on wood 16.00 x 20.00 inches $300

Breakfast at the Daniel Webster Inn, Sandwich, Cape Cod
2010, 2020 oil 34.00 x 64.00 inches $3,000
This is one of the largest paintings I ever painted. It also took a long time to paint. It shows one morning's breakfast being served(at least coffee by the waitresses) at The Daniel Webster Inn in Sandwich, Cape Cod, It's also happens to be the restaurant I worked at for five summers in the 1990's as a busboy. Since it's a five-star prestigious and expensive restaurant I know that the waitresses or busboys would probably not be able to afford a meal here. The point, however, of my painting is to show that even though "the rich are different from you and me(F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Rich Boy" story)" the tension is so thick, strong probably between the people, especially with the young family, the mother and daughters, in particular, towards the left side when maybe having a family feud's breakfast conversation that you couldn't cut it with any of the butter knives I set as a busboy that breakfast morning during a summer meal in Sandwich, Cape Cod, MA. In other words, even the rich don't necessarily have it easy.

Cape Cod Kitchen
2000 oil 34.00 x 48.00 inches $1,000
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This is a kitchen in a cottage in Sandwich, Cape Cod that I cooked many meals at from Fall, 1994 to Spring, 1995 in Sandwich, MA. It also happens to be the cottage house that I lived in through many summers from the 1970's until 2000 with my family. I happened to be living here in the above mentioned year while taking an art class at The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth during a few week days that I commuted to by bus from Bourne, Cape Cod. I just so happened to be working as a busboy at the above- right-mentioned restaurant while living here in 1994-5..

Cape Cod Landscape
1995 oil 27.50 x 35.75 inches $500
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This is an intriguing landscape that I happened to paint in 1995 in Sandwich, Cape Cod. Normally in that small New England town by the Cape Cod Bay/Ocean I would paint more fun beach or seascapes. This painting, however, presented a challenge for me: how does an artist get inspired to paint a house above an ugly weeded and little natural-grass landscape next to oil tanks(oil tanks that caught fire one summer day when workers were tarring the roofs of these causing the town to shut down for a while)? Carefully and colorfully with golden, yellow Windsor Newton oil paints and a Hopper-style like calm.
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