A Virginia woman's paintings of Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan are flying out of an art gallery in Sag Harbor.

Erin Crowe was trying to raise money for graduate school, when she began making oil-on-canvas portraits of Greenspan, giving them title such as "I Gotta Tell Ya" "Laughing Alan" and "Humpht."

"He has a great face for portraiture. Each painting I did, I wanted to do more" because the previous one didn't capture every nuance, she says in a phone interview to The Associated Press on Thursday. "It's fascinating, his hands, the wrinkles in his face, his forehead, his combover."

Crowe, 24, displayed her art this week at a family friend's gallery in Sag Harbor, Long Island, in hopes of earning some money before heading to London in October. Several Greenspans were sold at her show's opening last Saturday but the real frenzy started Tuesday after her works were featured in a segment on a cable financial news channel.

"It was like a gold rush," gallery co-owner Rebecca Cooper says. "People were stampeding and the phone was ringing off the hook. By the end of the day, every single piece was sold."

Eighteen paintings were sold to mostly Wall Street types for $1,000 to $4,000; the small gallery also took orders for large runs of prints.

Sally Breen, a family friend, says money managers and others in the financial business called from all over the country, looking for their Greenspans.