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Oil on canvas, 41x41", framed. Signed by the artist in the image.

Gorgeously colored large-scale painting depicting the moment when Dorothy, Toto, the Scarecrow, Tinman, and Cowardly Lion are all "off to see the Wizard". As they skip down the yellow brick road, a brightly colored Emerald City gleams in the background through a vivid pink sunset. Mike Wimmer was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma where he grew up like most boys: playing hard, fighting sleep, reading comic books and dreaming. His art development, with the help of comic books and boy's adventure stories, was well nourished and supplied by his parents who themselves had no knowledge or understanding of such talents. But, in their own words, "It kept him active, out of trouble and above all, quiet." Without formal education or training, Mike naively set out for studies at the University of Oklahoma where the opportunity to work with Don Ivan Punchatz at his famous Sketch Pad Studio in Arlington, Texas availed itself. Mike has illustrated many children's book covers and his newest book "Will Rogers", written by Governor Frank Keating, which was awarded the 2003 Spur Award from the Western Writers Association of America.