oarsman

“I mean, he epitomizes what it takes to be a successful oarsman or oarswoman.”

Runstad’s philosophy, Ingram added, was shaped by his experience as a oarsman at UW, where he won two collegiate rowing championships in the 1960s.

“I think his appreciation for, and love of, being an oarsman in many ways transcended what he was doing in real estate. The understanding of hard work and discipline and being precise — he had a great amount of confidence.”

The oil on canvas shows an oarsman in a top hat rowing his skiff on languid waters.

No one can be sure what was in Burr’s mind as a single oarsman rowed him and William Van Ness, his devoted disciple and protege, toward the New Jersey Palisades on the other side, but the judgment of posterity would be that Burr had finally trapped Hamilton in his diabolical web, and he was now moving in for the kill.