Inside, Looking Out #15

January 18, 2013

aka Etude #2 for Missing Persons #2 oil on watercolor paper – 18″ x 24″ – framed in maple – 24″ x 30″ Painted 6.28.2012 while on vacation in Springfield Vermont, at Kate Suchmann’s, my home-away-from-home. The view into the back garden from the library, with a conscious choice to virtually ignore the interior details […]

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Tidal Cove, Newcastle, NH

January 18, 2013

oil on cotton canvas – 12″ x 24″ started 1985, most recently revised December 2012 From May 1982 – April 1986 I lived in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Newcastle is just down river from Portsmouth — on the banks of the Piscataqua River separating New Hampshire from Kittery, Maine. The area is pocketed with tidal coves, […]

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Burnell Yow!

January 18, 2013

oil on plywood panel – 12″ x 12″  

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Looking West towards Woody Brown’s

January 18, 2013

aka Inside, Looking Out #14 oil on cotton canvasboard – 12″ x 16″ – framed in antique oak – 15.5″ x 19.5″  

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Barn Ghosts

January 18, 2013

oil on linen canvas – 10″ x 18″ Based on photograph taken in the 80s. Dayton Maine: the back of Richard Cole’s barn with the original back doors, before they were replaced with windows; as seen from the fields closer to the river, on a misty hazy afternoon.  

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Denali

January 18, 2013

oil on linen canvas 18″ x 30″ aka The High One as seen from Nugget Pond. Based on photograph of Mt. McKinley – Denali – taken in 1984, while on vacation at Camp Denali in Central Alaska, facing the north slope of the mountain.  

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Moon Rise

January 18, 2013

oil on plywood – 21″ x 25″ – framed with antique window sash – aka Down the Intervale #9. Started May 2011. Revised March 2012. In the collection of Carley Dunn

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Yearning

January 18, 2013

oil on linen canvas – 20″ x 16″ – framed in antique oak – 25.5″ x 21.5″ Winner of 3rd prize in the DaVinci Art Alliance/Lantern Theater collaboration Romeo & Juliet April 2012. Painted Saturday 3.10.12  Based on photographs taken in 2010.

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Eyes on the Skies

January 18, 2013

oil on plywood, framed in oak & walnut frame – 24″ x 17″ – aka Center City #6  

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Omar Kabir — Wound Up & Wound Down

January 18, 2013

Omar Kabir Wound Up oil on linen canvas – 10″ x 28″         Omar Kabir Wound Down oil on linen on panel – 24″ x 18″

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Et in Arcadia ego

January 17, 2013

acrylic on gypsum mural, in the w.c. at SOTA – Spirit of the Artist, 1022 Pine St., Philadelphia PA 19107 My friend Frank Burkhauser the genius behind SOTA, where I have sold a significant number of luminaries since we met over a decade ago, enlisted my help in converting his funky old bathroom into a classy, […]

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Purple Mountains Majesty

January 17, 2013

oil on linen canvas 18″ x 24″ collection of Pasha Buck aka Follow the Yellow Dirt Road. Inspired by a photo taken in Alaska in 1984 of the Denali Park Road, heading east through Stony Pass, looking toward Highway Mountain. Started Sunday 4.22.12 – 4.29.12. This was one of 13 paintings which moved to Bill Reneau’s […]

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Great Bay at Moody Point #2

January 17, 2013

acrylic on masonite panel 12″ x 20″ collection of Pasha Buck Painted in one session, Wednesday 9.26.12, the first day of an autumn vacation in New England; there to celebrate my 50th high school graduation reunion from Thornton Academy in Saco, Maine. I took my way north to Dayton via Megabus to Boston, then C&J […]

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Cole Farm on the Hill #2

January 16, 2013

oil on linen canvas 28″ x 24″ collection of Marge & Dewey Thompson Started April Fools 4.1.12 Palm Sunday. Bright, primary colors came to the fore during Easter week. I focused on a painting of a view familiar to me from infancy. Based on photographs taken in October 2010 while I was in Dayton. Fall […]

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Whence? Whither? Why?

January 16, 2013

2013. The new year’s first piece of AldenArt got started Thursday January 3rd with a pencil drawing on masonite panel, using a 36″ diameter circle that had been primed white last fall soon after I found it. The composition is based on a 1978 drawing on black paper, done with colored pencils. This new piece […]

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