Saddam's favorite fantasy painter is Rowena Morrill
Saddam Hussein's favorite painter speaks!
The artist known as Rowena admits her fantasy-art paintings — filled with snarling dragons, Fabio lookalikes and buxom damsels — can attract an offbeat clientele. But Saddam Hussein? The upstate New York painter was stunned to learn two of her campy, sexually charged artworks wound up at the tyrant's love shack in Baghdad.
And now she wants her ’80s-vintage paintings back — taloned serpents, bare-breasted babes and all. "I would give anything to get them back," said Rowena, whose last name is Morrill but prefers using only her first name. "I am so upset that they are there."
The painting from earlier this week, with the "busty blond . . . conjuring up a forked-tongued serpent to wrap itself around the body of a hunky bare-chested warrior," was originally done for the cover of Shadows Out of Hell, a 1980 fantasy novel by Andrew Offutt. Saddam also had this Rowena painting entitled "King Dragon" in the same house.
More Rowena art here and here and here and here.
