C. DAVID THOMAS (American b. 1947) "Ho Chi Minh on Red Ground" and "Ho Chi Minh in Black and White" Computer enhanced, four color lithograph collage with animated looking oil paint figures. Each measures 32 3/5 x 25 1/2 inches, including frame. Unsigned. (Please contact Fine Art Dept. for full condition report.) Notes: David Thomas joined the U.S. Army in 1969 and was sent to Pleiku, South Vietnam, as a combat engineer/artist. In 1987 he returned to Vietnam for the first time. Since then he has made more than thirty trips to Vietnam to do research and conduct programs of cultural exchange between the United States and Vietnam. Thomas has curated three exhibitions: As Seen by Both Sides: American and Vietnamese Artists Look at the War (the first major cultural exchange between the U.S. and Vietnam since the war), An Ocean Apart: Contemporary Vietnamese Artwork From The United States and Vietnam, and Seven Pillars: The National Treasure Artists of Vietnam. In 1999, Thomas became the first foreigner to receive the Vietnam Art Medal, Vietnam's highest art award. Since 1987 Thomas has done extensive research on Ho Chi Minh and Vietnamese culture and has collected hundreds of pictures of Ho Chi Minh, stamps and other images from Vietnamese history.