Telling Tales
The builder
It’s Labor Day. I once titled an exhibition in Vienna ‘Labor Day’ and many of the paintings in the show were of people working. While I was working on the show I remembered an incident with my New York dealer years earlier. I had brought a Miami picture to the gallery, it was a South […]
We Appreciate Summer Pleasures
Summer nights
My dealer told me he liked this pastel. He said I had caught the essence of sea grape which he said was hard to do; it’s the plant on the right in the picture. I thought it caught the essence of the excitement of young love on a hot summer night.
Sea breeze
This pastel was in an exhibition, and was purchased on opening night by a man who declared that he was in love with the pastel and it would hang in his study. He collected his picture at the end of the show only to return it the next day. When my dealer inquired as to […]
Clear day
Safe
Sometimes habits get in the way. When I visit Palm Beach I always stay with my dear friend who lives at the north end of the island. Every day I would walk on the beach and do so by entering through a gate at the end of her road. For years when I stood on […]
Walk on the Beach
Palms
This was the most beautiful formation of palm trees in Palm Beach, they would lift my spirits every time I walked by, so I painted them. When the new owners bought the property, the first thing they did was to cut these beauties down.
The wind can see
A while back I posted a pastel that I had done of the Central Park Boat Pond from the time when I first arrived in New York, it was a time when only the boats of Kerbs Boat House sailed the pond. Today it’s filled with sailboats rented to the tourist. It’s chaos on the […]
