Just Sold: A painting finished only days ago

May 5, 2014

Cole Farm on the Hill #3, oil on linen, 10″ x 26″ • started April 24, 2012; finished April 28, 2014 • collection of Mary Gay Baldyga The spring of 2012 was very productive. Several older paintings were revisited, some were even finished, and a number of new paintings were started. Among the newly-started was […]

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“Morning, Noon and Night”… in Dayton

May 4, 2014

3 paintings, 20″ x 16″ Now there are three versions of a familiar theme, Inside Looking Out. Two weeks ago on April 16 I posed the question “which painting do YOU like better?” with a picture of the Morning and Noon versions of these paintings. The ‘morning’ version happened to be my second oil painting, […]

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May Day! M’aidez!

May 2, 2014

I’m talking about two different May Days here. Of note: yesterday I celebrated the 28th anniversary of my arrival in Philadelphia — May 1, 1986 — a true M’aidez May Day, to begin a new life. Like yesterday, that May Day was also a Thursday, was also hot and humid – an anomaly in our […]

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A New Decade Begins…

May 1, 2014

1970. The new decade started on a down note. My excitement over the prospect of being the designer for a new company — Sussman and Cole, or whatever we were going to call our new venture — crashed and burned with the news from Alan that his potential financiers had decided at the last minute […]

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Out & About… Cianfrani Park, plus…

April 30, 2014

four photos taken Monday April 28 while taking a walk out and about. The Pink Bud in the left photo was at the corner of 7th and Pine Streets; the Wisteria in third place was growing in front of Pennsylvania Hospital; the close-up of the chartreuse ground cover (an unknown variety to me) and the […]

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Come the Fall…

April 29, 2014

four drawings done in 1970, each 11″ x 8.5″ • collection of the artist From August 15-18, 1969, the phenomenon known as Woodstock — “An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music” — occurred. I was not there; I was in NYC. Just days short of celebrating my first anniversary in the city, I […]

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Out & About… Rittenhouse Square

April 29, 2014

photo taken April 27, 2012, of Rittenhouse Square in its spring glory. It’s not looking like this quite yet this year, with our unusually late spring. Will we even have a spring? Will summer be far behind?

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Stepping out with Happy Legs…

April 27, 2014

four drawings done in 1969, each 14″ x 8.5″ • collection of the artist My time at Paul Ressler Ltd. was just that — a brief nine months, from late August 1968 until late May 1969. Despite Paul’s assurances that the company was going to expand its design line, that change seemed awfully slow in […]

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My Favorite Cherry Blossoms…

April 27, 2014

Just a block away from where I live, walking north on 7th Street, is one of those late blooming, spectacular cherry trees, the type with incredibly lush double-triple-quadruple blossoms — one of nature’s most extraordinary spring sights and delights. Walking uptown the other day I turned back home just to retrieve my camera in order […]

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It’s Lilac Time again…

April 25, 2014

The lilacs in the backyard are just beginning to bloom: as seen late this afternoon, first in profile looking through the kitchen window; then standing in the garden full-front looking up into them against an azure sky, David Lynch style. My lilac bush has grown from a single cutting brought back to Philly at least […]

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My First Real Job…

April 24, 2014

three drawings done in the spring of 1969, each 11″ x 8.5″ • collection of the artist From the end of August 1968 until late May 1969 I worked for Paul Ressler Ltd., a family-owned-and-operated business that specialized in mens pants, specifically trendily-designed pants for young men. Recently arrived in NYC I answered an ad […]

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Wit’ and Wit’out… Flash

April 23, 2014

In keeping an attentive eye on the sky, I noticed a dramatic dusk developing yesterday just in time to catch some photos of an incoming storm. First shot, without flash — revealing awesome clouds forming above the city; second shot, with flash — revealing little white balls that are not your usual April showers; they’re […]

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At Last — A New Life in the Big Apple…

April 22, 2014

four fashion drawings done August 1968, each 13″ x 8″ • collection of the artist Upon release from service August 7, 1968, I pulled my few belongings together from the barracks room where I had been living with two other airmen for the last year and three-quarters, then headed back to the old home place […]

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Those amazing daffodils made a come-back…

April 21, 2014

On Thursday April 18, just four days ago, I made the comment that the daffodils were passé for the season, a hard rain with hail having virtually leveled the patch of yellow joyousness that I had been watching with delight for over 10 days. Well my statement that they were ‘done’ for the year was […]

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Happy Easter

April 21, 2014

Find any good Easter Eggs lately? Thought it was time to ‘ovalize’ (or is it ‘ovumize’?) the shape of a seasonal piece created last year (which I sent out Good Friday, March 31, 2013 in its original rectangular format) to make it more appropriate for this Easter Sunday. A brief post written at the time […]

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