Follow BeltwayBlips on TwitterFormer Iraq administrator Bremer now a painter
Published 3/5/2009 by peterhamby at CNN Political Ticker
A sample of Bremer’s art, which favors farm and country scenes.
WASHINGTON (CNN) – L. Paul Bremer, the former head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, has a new trade: painting.
Bremer has launched Web site promoting his work, mostly oil paintings on canvas or panels, depicting wintery landscapes in Vermont, where he has “an old [...]
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