(x-posted to YatPundit and YatCuisine)

We all encounter things that "speak" to us. Things that, when our senses encounter them, we are immediately transported to a different place and time. Sometimes we're transported to places not of this earth. Just as the music of Renard Poche takes me to a place and time very special to me, the artwork of H. Eric Hartman often does the same. Combine the return after the storm of one of my favorite places to eat in New Orleans (Bud's Broiler on City Park Avenue) with Eric's talent and, well, you get the painting above.
I first met Eric Hartman, *art-man*, in the summer of 1976, when I became an associate member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity at the University of New Orleans. Eric has a rare degenerative disease which has left his vision severely impaired. He turned away from his banking career and took up his art full-time in 1995.
Eric's Bud's painting captures the soul of this small burger joint in Mid City.
Hartman's painting has been reproduced as a limited-number poster series. The poster costs $30, and is available for purchase at Bud's Broiler on City Park, or direct from Eric (ehartman@artman.com).

We all encounter things that "speak" to us. Things that, when our senses encounter them, we are immediately transported to a different place and time. Sometimes we're transported to places not of this earth. Just as the music of Renard Poche takes me to a place and time very special to me, the artwork of H. Eric Hartman often does the same. Combine the return after the storm of one of my favorite places to eat in New Orleans (Bud's Broiler on City Park Avenue) with Eric's talent and, well, you get the painting above.
I first met Eric Hartman, *art-man*, in the summer of 1976, when I became an associate member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity at the University of New Orleans. Eric has a rare degenerative disease which has left his vision severely impaired. He turned away from his banking career and took up his art full-time in 1995.
Eric's Bud's painting captures the soul of this small burger joint in Mid City.
Hartman's painting has been reproduced as a limited-number poster series. The poster costs $30, and is available for purchase at Bud's Broiler on City Park, or direct from Eric (ehartman@artman.com).


















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