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A canvas sitting out right in front of us just happens to belong to the Working Women series. Joe began painting the portraits of women in 1982. Today, he estimates that the series is made up of more than 300 canvases. His first subject was his then-girlfriend, Annie Smith, a former prostitute and stripper…
“Living with a stripper, you start to realize how horribly women get treated," Joe says. "I had a real education and that told me right away that I had to do [the series]."
Joe says he selects the women in his paintings not based on their looks, but on their skills.
“What’s the criteria? Basically, that they did what they did well," he says. "I don’t care about age or anything. It was never about how they looked."
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