From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Sadam's Rowenas
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 10:43:00 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Mike Walsh, you have a sharp eye:

"The artist known as Rowena admits her fantasy-art paintings - filled with
snarling dragons, Fabio lookalikes and buxom damsels - can attract an
offbeat clientele.
But Saddam Hussein?

"The upstate painter was stunned to learn two of her campy, sexually
charged artworks wound up at the tyrant's love shack in Baghdad.

"And now she wants her '80s-vintage paintings back - taloned serpents,
bare-breasted babes and all.

""I would give anything to get them back," said Rowena, whose last name is
Morrill but prefers using only her first name. "I am so upset that they are
there."

""I utterly hate Saddam Hussein," she said. "I loathe everything he is and
everything he stands for."

"Rowena, 58, said she did the oil paintings that hung in the dictator's den
about 15 years ago as covers for bodice-ripper paperbacks with titles such
as "King Dragon" and "Shadows Out of Hell.""

>From Tuesday's New York DAILY NEWS.   Full story at
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/75594p-69826c.html

--Ted White