Memory is a Funny Thing: Portraits

Leaving Vermont

Oil on Linen, 20" x 30"

Sitting in the Morning Sun

Brooklyn, 1946

My Aunt Mary is waiting, remembering her home in Hull, England.  She came to the US in 1930 and visited us every single Sunday with a box of Barton’s chocolates.  I like to think she had a girlfriend, but I’ve never been sure. When she died Aunt Mary left me $30,000, which she had saved from her salary every week.  

Love Letter

...to my former self

8" x 10", oil on linen

In my Studio

Oil on Linen, 8" x 10"

Wedding Guests

Summer at the Lake

Kerr Lake, 1970

25" x 28", oil on linen

Ben, Amy and Jane: fooling around on top of our VW Van. Later I was driving the kids on a dirt road in the rain and went into a ditch and the van rolled over.  That was before seatbelts but no one was hurt except for the car.

One of the delights and challenges in making these paintings come alive is the choice I make as an artist to paint ob