Mike Wilkins Memorial

Here's the Mike Wilkins
memorial exhibit
at the National Veterans Art Museum

Mike was a Marine mapmaker in Vietnam
and served on the board of the Veterans Museum.





He was also a serious sketcher,
this being one of this his sketchbooks
from 1969





Pretty good for a 23 year old kid
in his spare time.











The exhibit also includes
books from 1977, 1989, and 1995




Mike was very good at a classical style
of figure drawing,
but as this detail shows,
he could have been a delightful
abstract artist as well.





1967







Marine on Patrol, 1967





Maintenance on helicopter
Marble Mountain Air Force Base
1967




Artists creating mural, 1968



Control Tower, Marble Mountain, 1968




1967







Perimeter, Marble Mountain, 1968




1968




1968



1968



1967





Calisto


Unlike most of the artists at the Veteran's Museum,
Mike never looked back.

When he left Vietnam,
he left that subject matter
behind as well.





Fall Competition, Kelly, 1998



Koko, 1987



Patricia, 1974



Michael, 1979



1996




Draw Bridge, 1999


2002


2002



Looks like a scene from the Palette and Chisel.

A Monday night model, perhaps.

Health permitting, Mike was regular at those workshops
which he invariably entertained
with his improvisational comedy.