Long Ago and Far Away

October 29, 2014

Top photo ca. 1900; middle and bottom photos ca. 1930. Antique views of the Dayton Maine farmstead where I grew up, taken years before I was born. All three show the original cape-style house with ell built in the early 1800s (attached to the shed, attached to the barn – both still standing today). The […]

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Into the Barn – Part 2

October 26, 2014

A composite view using 3 photos, standing mid-way in the barn looking towards the back windows. Another composite view using 2 photos, looking from the back left bay across the center aisle to the right bay which has been Aldenized. An intimate still life looking out the back windows, including an antique cobalt blue bottle […]

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Into the Woods – The Stover Connection

October 25, 2014

Maine Country Road, a first-class photo by Harold Stover 2014, that captures the quintessential feeling of fall in the quietude of the country. Highlights of my Maine vacation include reconnecting with high school friend Bill Harrison and his wife Claire who live in Portland, as well as Nokomis Florida. They arrived to pick me up […]

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Into the Woods

October 20, 2014

Into the Woods • acrylic on panel 12″ x 20″ • collection of the artist. So what did I do while I was on vacation? Well, in addition to taking a lot of photographs, I did do some painting – like the small panel at left  – while I was in Maine. My retreat to the […]

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39 years ago today…

October 19, 2014

On Sunday, October 19, 1975, I had my one-and-only one-man show in NYC, at a florist shop in the ground floor of a high rise apartment building on the upper West Side of Manhattan at 79th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. Arranged by my friend Joe Felician (real name Jose Feliciano; no, not that particular singer […]

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Into the Barn — Part 1

October 17, 2014

In answer to the question “Did I paint while I was in Maine?” I would have to respond that I did very little picture painting per se, despite the fact that I had carried a weighty selection of paints with me from Philly, plus there were numerous surfaces in the barn previously found and saved […]

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1975: more flyers from the 2nd Church series plus associated artworks

October 12, 2014

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Spring 1974 — First Mural Commission

September 18, 2014

Rapture • watercolor on paper 18″ x 24″ • provenance unknown. In early spring of 1974 Elizabeth Lamkin and husband David Griffith, professional opera-singing friends of Harold Stover, approached me about painting a small mural in their two-room apartment on West End Avenue at 95th Street in Manhattan. To save space they had constructed a […]

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In the Thrall of Color, and the Human Figure

September 14, 2014

Released from the need to draw in black and white to make a living, I found myself in a whole new world of color awaiting exploration. All the colors of the rainbow! Plus I had rediscovered the nude human  figure; I didn’t have to draw my figures with trendy clothes on anymore. By inadvertently finding […]

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Spring Light – Facing 30

September 10, 2014

Initiation 1 aka Worship • watercolor on paper 14″ x 11″ • collection of Stephen Hutcheson. This was the first sale of my new art that was emerging that winter from a collaboration of my hands and heart; created in early February 1974 then being seen & bought  shortly thereafter by my friend Steve, who insisted on buying it, […]

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Into the Dark Ages – December 1973

September 9, 2014

Illumination • oil on canvas, 24″ x 18″ • collection of Robert Mayberry (San Diego). This painting was my fourth in oils. In retrospect I can see that I wasn’t exactly burning up the paints and canvas with my new found interest in painting that autumn of ’73. Critical of what little I had been […]

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Spring ’74 Concerts from the Stover Series

September 7, 2014

At left a flyer advertising a solo concert by soprano Elizabeth Lamkin February 24, 1974; at right, advertising Harold’s organ concert first played at St. Thomas’ Church, 5th Avenue in Manhattan, on June 23, then again on July 22 at St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, London. Below, advertisement for a concert of varied sacred music at Second Church […]

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Beginnings of the Stover Second Church Series

September 6, 2014

During the fall of ’73, concurrently with my explorations of the medium of oil painting with somewhat frustrating results, I also started drawing in pencil again; ideas put down in an 11″ x 14″ sketch book, often while listening to classical music – a lot of Wagner and other 19th century Romantics. To evoke the pleasure […]

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Oil Painting #3 – Inner Nature

September 2, 2014

Inner Nature aka Commencement aka Outside, Looking In #1 • oil on canvas 24″ x 18″ • provenance unknown. This is what I painted as a follow up to my two first oil paintings done in Dayton, after returning to New York City in mid September 1973. Essential Alden – Night Air, Mountainous Earth, Deep […]

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Saturday, September 1, 1973

August 30, 2014

Down by the River Side • oil on canvasboard 12″ x 16″ • collection of the artist On Saturday, September 1, 1973, my grandmother’s 93rd birthday, I painted my very first oil painting, created as a present for her. I was 29 years old. In this first-ever attempt in the medium, I choose to portray […]

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