Crossing Paths with the Chairman (or Cousins, Conventions and Cadavers)

Ed Jonas is someone I had known about in a roundabout way for years before finally meeting him. This is one of those Southern tales where it turns out everybody knows everybody, and we're all connected somehow. Ed and I didn't turn out to be distant relatives or anything, but in keeping with the narrative, there were a couple cousins involved. Earlier in his career, Ed managed the Museum of Natural History in Tallahassee where my cousin Jaime worked. At the time, Ed was primarily known as a portrait painter. Jaime introduced his sister Karen to Ed who then commissioned Ed to paint a portrait of her two boys, lounging with Duchess the Maltese. Whenever we visited my cousin Karen in Panama Cit

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The Portrait Society of America is a national 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, founded in February 1998

to further the traditions of fine art portraiture and figurative art. 

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