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| Painting by Alex Schaefer |
Buck Sexton
The Blaze
For one Los Angeles-based painter, scenes of anti-capitalist anarchy have really paid off.
Alex Schaefer has recently sold a 22-by-28-inch canvas (above) to a German art collector for $25,000. A 6-by-8work also garnered $3,600 from a collector in Britain, and more paintings are underway.
But police weren‘t among the early admirers of Schaefer’s work. In July, while he was set up outside a Chase bank branch in Los Angeles, Schaefer was stopped and questioned by patrol officers who were responding to a complaint that the painting frightened passersby.
The police were apparently concerned that there was a terrorist threat implied in the painting. According to the Los Angeles Times, police told told Schaefer that:
“They had to find out my intention. They asked if I was a terrorist and was I going to follow through and do what I was painting.”
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