Taking You There: ‘The Mountain and the Valley’

Taking You There: ‘The Mountain and the Valley’
A detail from “The Mountain and the Valley,” circa 1970, although signed, by an unknown artist. Oil on Canvas, 48 inches by 36 inches. Courtesy of Wayne Barnes
Wayne A. Barnes
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On Christmas break during my last year of law school in 1970, I felt pretty good, with one semester to go before I might take on the world and become a practicing attorney.

I borrowed my mother’s old gray Rambler and drove to the nearby Cherry Hill Mall in South Jersey for some last-minute shopping. I chanced to walk into an art gallery, wondering what mall art might look like. High up on a wall was a painting that took my breath away.

Wayne A. Barnes
Wayne A. Barnes
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Wayne A. Barnes worked foreign counterintelligence cases in his 29-year career in the FBI. He has completed a manuscript about his part in the investigation to uncover the KGB’s mole in the FBI—Robert Hanssen—and is pursuing publication.
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