Oil and acrylic on board, signed with artist's initials at lower left, dated 2009, framed as though an open book with both panels slightly angled.

Frame dimensions 20 5/8 x 33 1/2 in.

John Stephen McLachlin served four decades for The Daytona News-Journal as it's first full-time art director and as it's cartoonist. He retired in 2000, after four decades of award-winning page designs, story illustrations and freewheeling cartoons. McLachlin was born in New Jersey, grew up in Missouri and arrived in Florida as a teenager when his parents moved to Ormond by the Sea in the early 1950s. In his Ormond Beach studio, McLachlin produced paintings that were big, bold and abstract, often with Native American themes. He blended wood, metal and ordinary objects into sculptures that appeared organic. He collected, restored and replicated antique firearms, specializing in Kentucky long rifles. After retirement, he opened The Art of Restoration, a business devoted to restoring antique paintings and furniture, as well as weapons.

Several small nail holes with pigment loss; minor staining and rubbing to frame.