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| Biography | I Grew up in Casper,
Wyoming. My
mother is an artist and my father a geologist. One room in the house at
10th and Durbin was a painting studio. There were cans of brushes,
drawers
of paint tubes, drilling site maps and reproductions of Picassos and
Goyas
on the walls, art books, bags of rock samples, and beautiful paintings
throughout the house. It was an environment that encouraged creative
expression. A decision I made in highschool was to be an artist as a vocation. In 1972 at age eighteen I enrolled in the Art Students Academy in Tulsa, Oklahoma and studied painting and drawing with Pat Mcguffin for 2 years. 1976, I moved to New York City to see the originals of the great artists in the Metropolitan Museum, the Frick, and numerous other museums and to study at the Art Students League. Although my original motivation was to paint surrealistic art, I was captivated with painting people and their surroundings from life. This led to plein-air painting of the city and countryside. I found that there is a life and energy one can achieve in a painting of which can best be gotten through direct observation from nature. My life would become a series of experiences and my drawings and paintings are memories of those experiences. To make the world my studio and its inhabitants my models seemed, if not profound, at least interesting. In 1979 I went to Europe. After one year spent in England, France, Italy, Sicily, Germany, Czechoslovakia and other countries, I returned to NYC with an uncompromising attitude towards painting. Of the new paintings, a large painting of the Brooklyn Bridge was included in the 1983 Centennial Exhibition for the Bridge at the Brooklyn Museum. This painting was purchased by White and Case Law Offices. Another painting was included in a show at the Museum of the City of New York. The museum bought the painting for their collection. In 1986 "Anna" was painted. At this time, I was teaching painting at the Art Students League. The owner of Portraits Inc. invited me to be represented by the gallery. This started a career in portraiture. Among the hundreds of commissions I've done, one is of Chief Justice William Rehnquist for the United States Supreme Court. In 1988 during the renovation of the Brooklyn Bridge, I arranged on a whim to paint from the top of one of the arches for a month. I painted the workers and views down to the roadway. From there I received a commission from McCarter and English Law Offices of Newark to paint three large panoramas, one was a view of Jersey City in the winter snow as seen from the World Trade Center roof. I spent two years painting on top of the World Trade Center. I feel fortunate in my calling as it is my occupation to find and portray the wisdom and contentment in people. |
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| Collections
(Paintings) |
The Museum of the City of New
York - (cityscape) White and Case Law Offices, New York, NY - (2 large, a cityscape & a firescape) McCarter and English Law Offices, Newark, NJ - (3 mural size cityscapes) Charles H. McNider Museum, Mason City, IO - (large painting of Bil Baird and puppets) Columbia Presbyterian's Babies Hospital, NY - (painting of Michael Christiansen, Big Apple Circus) Salmagundi Club, New York, NY - (large painting of Pilsen, Czech Republic) Oppenheimer Capital, New York, NY - (large painting of Manhattan, sunset) The Church of the Holy Innocents, New York, NY - (biblical scene) Readers Digest, Pleasantville, NY - (large floral scene from the Brooklyn Botanical Garden) |
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| Collections
(Portraits) |
United
States District Court, New York, NY United States Supreme Court, Washington, DC The Colony Club, New York, NY The Rouse Corporation, Baltimore, MD Phillips Exeter Academy University of Rochester, Rochester, NY University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA Campbell's Soup, London, UK Yale University, Hartford, CT Trinity
Church, New York, NY
Barnard College, New York, NY |
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| Portrait
Prices
Call
my
Wyoming number for more information: |
Oil on Canvas
Will Travel Posthumous okay, but prefers to work from live sittings Needs 4-6 sittings, 2-4 hours each |
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