Do You Think This Will Fit in My Carry On

Sometimes you're on vacation in Miami with your family and you want to buy a souvenir. So like any art dealer on vacation, you head directly for Wynwood to do a little souvenir shopping. Sometimes you pick up a snow globe or maybe a magnet for the refrigerator.

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And then other times you pick up a monumental hard edge painting by abstract artist Dennis Ashbaugh and then you ask yourself if a seven foot painting will fit in your carry on luggage. So that's what happened a few years ago. I was hanging out in the Wynwood Arts District near Miami Beach when I came across this massive shaped canvas from 1976 I knew I had to buy it. My kids knew I had to buy it. The shop owners were curious how I'd get it back to South Beach. So I did what any antique dealer would do. I asked to borrow their pick up truck. And I drove it to a storage unit and then organized with my shipper to pick it up. And I couldn't be happier with my souvenir from our Miami Beach vacation. ;-) hkv