Saco River Valley Reverie

December 20, 2013

from the Inside, Looking Out series, acrylic on masonite panel, framed in antique 6-pane window sash, 23″ x 28″    $644 September 2013. Two nights before leaving Dayton to return to Philadelphia, I had dinner with Harold and Elizabeth Stover, friends of many years, dating back to my time in New York City in the […]

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Daffodil Time

December 19, 2013

from the Inside, Looking Out series, aka Down the Intervale #7, oil on masonite panel framed with antique 9-pane window sash, 30″ x 24″    $720 May 2011. During the first two weeks of May I house-sat the old home place in Dayton, while my brother and his wife visited family in California. What a […]

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Fall ‘n’ Fog

December 18, 2013

from the Inside, Looking Out series, aka Down the Intervale #16, acrylic on panel, 6″ x 26″     $156 October 2012. A foggy day in Dayton town, down on the intervale, fall coming on. One of the more successful paintings achieved by experimenting with acrylics while on vacation in Maine a year ago: a […]

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Buttercup Time

December 17, 2013

  from the Inside, Looking Out series, aka Down the Intervale #6, oil on canvas, 11″ x 14″    $154 June 2010. Just as I was beginning to paint from the natural world again, I spent a week in Dayton. Only two paintings emerged during that brief time; naive attempts to capture the glory of […]

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Autumn Reveries

December 16, 2013

from the Inside, Looking Out series; aka Down the Intervale of the Saco River #8, oil on pine board, 11.5″ x 48″    $552 2013. The view from the back of the barn, where I grew up in Dayton Maine, looking east to the tree line bordering the Saco River, which has only a few […]

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North by NorthWest

December 15, 2013

from the Inside, Looking Out series: oil on canvas, 22″ x 34″   $748 Summer Solstice 2013. Late last winter I cut up the last of some linen yardage acquired a year ago, enough to stretch four same-size canvases – 22″ x 34″ – on heavy duty stretchers. The ritual of transforming raw canvas into […]

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Concentration & Meditation

December 14, 2013

aka The Thinkers, aka Sunrise/Sunset, aka Iphigenia in Tauris & Buddha on the Beach, diptych, oil on canvas,  22″ x 34″ each, $748 each 2013. In June, as a birthday present to myself, I created two paintings which constitute today’s art, a diptych inspired by a charcoal sketch by 19th century Russian artist, Valentin Serov (1865-1911), […]

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Living on the Earth

December 13, 2013

aka Balcony Lover, aka Eyes on the Skies #1. aka Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou? oil on canvas, 27″ x 41″     $2214 1993. Twenty years ago I was putting the finishing touches to a commissioned painting that I had taken on a couple years before. Through the twists and turns of fate, fortune, […]

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Shanghai Loca & other Fashionable Follies

December 12, 2013

poster for Off-Off Broadway production, 1973 The Moon Also Rises in my art a full forty years ago, when I was still making my living as a fashion illustrator. My New York career in the fashion world was rather checkered, hardy the smashing success I had naively envisioned for myself while studying at RISD, or […]

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Moon Magic

December 11, 2013

illustration published as wrap-around book-cover by Samuel Weiser, Inc. 1978 • original artwork, provenance unknown 1978. I’d been living in New York for a decade, making my living as a free lance illustrator… again. This time however I was creating illustrations for book covers, rather than fashion illustrations for trade magazines. The publisher I worked […]

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Moon Light Magic #2

December 10, 2013

aka Grand Illusions 1989, oil on canvas, 15″ x 24″; framed, 17″ x 26″; $442 I’ve noticed repeatedly over the years that I tend to reprise certain subject matters, particularly those paintings which sell, or to which I experienced strong attachments during the creative process – in plain language, I looked at what I had […]

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The Trees, the Sky, the Moon, and I

December 9, 2013

oil on canvas, 24″ x 32″      in the collection of Marge and Dewey Thompson “Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes, Don’t Let the Moon Break Your Heart”  Another Monday, another Moon painting; like last Friday’s post, a Moon Setting rather than a Moon Rising. Started as a pencil sketch in the […]

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StarLings Under Glass: Flim, Flam, thank you Pam!

December 8, 2013

oil paintings on glass, framed in vintage chrome, with mirrors in the upper register, 18″ x 10″ each    $125 each “Don’t let the Stars Get in Your Eyes…”  Four years ago I did an amount of experimenting with painting in reverse on  glass, using oils. The subject matter for the series was Stars – […]

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Two Weeks from Now… 12/21/13

December 7, 2013

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MoonLight Magic #1

December 6, 2013

aka MoonLight for the Misbegotten, oil on canvas, 24″ x 30″    in the collection of Nancy Goodwin-Hegg Another Moon painting created thirty years ago; one of the earliest, preceding by only a few months the painting featured yesterday. Inspired by a view I enjoyed for a brief period – spring through fall of ’81 – […]

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