WASHINGTON (CNN) – L. Paul Bremer, the former head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, has a new trade: painting.
Bremer has launched Web site promoting his work, mostly oil paintings on canvas or panels, depicting wintery landscapes in Vermont, where he has “an old farm house.” He’s also holding an exhibition - his second - in the Vermont town of Grafton this summer.
He said he refined his skills at a school in Glen Echo, Maryland. “I started painting about two years ago,” he said. “It’s something that always interested me.”
Bremer currently does consulting work and serves on a number of boards in the Washington area. He said he’s donating the proceeds from his sales to the Chester and Grafton Historical Societies in Vermont.
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John Wayne Gacy painted too...
...hopefully, they'll meet similar ends...
Well I'll be able to sleep securely tonight in the thought of this information.
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He should be painting in a prison cell somewhere.
He's about as good a painter as he was as interim head of Iraq...Not!
Ahhh...where is that van I just saw out front; you know the one containg several bags? Bags? yes, bags filled with $100.00 bills!
Not exactly Donna Dewbury
What ? No Iraqi Farm and Country scenes?
Perhaps they would not be as pastoral, with all that smoke rising in the background . . .
@keith in california
You probably can't say anything nice can you? You must be a liberal.
He is doing now what he should have been doing in Iraq....painting landscapes not diplomacy.
I'd like to see him paint a still-life of the nearly 9 billion dollars that went missing in Iraq on his watch.
Wow, looks like someone finally found something he could do. Congrats.
He should be in IRAQ in the on guard duty in the brig!
Liberals would never consider this painting "art". To be considered art there has to be overtly homosexual inferences or a sculpture of Jesus made out of poop. Farm & country scenes have no artistic merit anymore. I'm sure liberals view American Gothic as a painting of 2 racist homophobes with a pitchfork. A liberal is probably looking at Bremer's painting now trying to decide which barn is potentially the Slave Quarters, so they can act outraged.
We can now scratch two trades from his possibilites!
Well, administration wasn't his calling.. and neither, it appears, is art. That looks like a paint-by-numbers my 8-year-old did. Keep searching, L. Paul.
Hmmmm – paint by number?
How twisted! I wonder if this is how Van Gogh got started.
And when my numbers up. I will live, live live until I die. Micky Jackson...
GGGGGGGGGeeeeeeesh!
B_____D!
Yes GAcy ,while I who have invested 50 years in my painting craft...don't even get enough SS income to eat for 30 days a month.
That's because the money Bremer "lost" in Iraq came out of our SS fund!
Bunch of cybersnots...I think it's great he's pursuing his muse...and donating the proceeds to local charities. Do you?
who cares? is this really news... this guy needs to be forgotten...
Pretty good painting... don't know much about the man... and don't want to! Seriously... I have better things to do with my time..
I wanna comment on Sanjay Gupta above.
It is good he nevered tyhe admin
I saw his name and immediately thought – oh that's harmless, he's painting houses now. Oops.
I hope I get to do something I enjoy during retirement. It's getting there that's the challenge.
It's great if Bremer can extract some dough from his Bushist fans for charitable purposes. After all, why would he want to clutter up his house with such amateurish work?
By the way, Chester Depot, VT, is really picturesque. If Bremer could paint those stone houses half as well as they're built, that would be good art.
where is all that cash [tons] that disappeared while in your command? you should be in jail.
Is he in Therapy as well ?
Love the red barn and the snow covered landscape !
I miss the business suit with the camo boots look myself .
Adam @ 6:15 talking out of his posterior as usual.
No, Adam, any liberal would consider that art.
It is narrow minded idiots like you who are obsessed with telling people what is and isn't art based on how offended you are.
And you really should look into why you're obsessed with homosexuality. Really. Take your trip to the Bay and be done with it already.
big papa March 5th, 2009 5:50 pm ET
John Wayne Gacy painted too…
…hopefully, they'll meet similar ends…
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What an evil comment... Just disgusting and disturbing!!
He should be painting his pictures in a prison cell along with the entire Bush administration!
Is that blood from his hands or red paint in the picture?
How very fortunate for him to still have both hands, arms and all his fingers so he can paint. Far too many of our military came home without their limbs.
I'm glad he knows how to do something because he sucked as administrator in Iraq.
I feel like L. Paul Bremer has found something that has taking his mind off of a lot. This painting trade is not what people want to hear but everything must not be about the war. I dont see bad in anyone if he did a good or bad job in Iraq. We cant change history just learn from our mistakes.
@ texas teacher-Just wondering, do you consider your comment nice?
well he sure painted us into a corner when he was in Iraq!
what a clown!!
texas teacher please get your head out of your butt. Do you have any clue what this guy did to Iraq under the leadership of the idiot that lives down the street from you. He is responsible for 1000's of US deaths.
Librals can't say anything nice because we have to put up with idoits like you electing losers like bush who has failed at everything he has ever done. So you make him the president. He has no idea how to lead so he starts a war.
Same ole haters. Here is a good one get a life. I guess I should go and read most of your posts about how great life is now that BO is president. It must be nice to be unemployed and uneducated to sit around all day and type a bunch of hate.
Even the paintings that come from these idiots need to be worked over and polished before publishing!! What a waste of canvas.
You deserve to be in prison.
There are some real beautiful landscapes just ready to be painted in Iraq. Maybe he could get a federal grant take a chair and paint his little heart out. Or he could take George back to Iraq and paint one of him with oil on a canvas.
Come on? Let's cut him some sluck. I still remember his catch phrase when he got Saddam Hussein" Ladies and Gentlemen, we got him". I think if he could paint the whole scenario of Saddam being caught, he would get more money.
That is awesome..first thought to mind is the Spirit of Gramma Moses is inspiring another Vermont'er. He should put a few paintings in her museum for viewing.....
This is a wonderful outlet and keeps the thinking side of the brain working......
To Jade: Good question, I've always wondered what happened to those 10 truck loads of U.S. dollars and how many gold antiques were stolen from Saddams mansion.
Adam March 5th, 2009 6:15 pm ET
Liberals would never consider this painting "art". To be considered art there has to be overtly homosexual inferences or a sculpture of Jesus made out of poop. Farm & country scenes have no artistic merit anymore. I'm sure liberals view American Gothic as a painting of 2 racist homophobes with a pitchfork. A liberal is probably looking at Bremer's painting now trying to decide which barn is potentially the Slave Quarters, so they can act outraged.
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Adam, it's called Prozac – just something to consider that might help you out bud.