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I am a professional artist working in watercolor, oil, charcoal and photography. Among my specialties are painting scenes of the Fulton Fish Market and New York City waterfront. My other subjects include, airplanes, cars, construction sites and landscapes. I accept commissions for special order paintings and drawings of a wide variety of subjects, and enjoy the opportunity to explore new areas. I strive to convey through my art work not only the visual aspects of a subject, but the essence and feel of it as well.
I live and work in New York City. My studio is at the South Street Seaport overlooking the East River in lower Manhattan. |
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I first went to the Fulton Fish Market in 1965 while attending the Art Students League in New York City. A class assignment to do an action composition began my long-standing interest in portraying all aspects of Market activity. At that time it was an open air market located along the old streets of the South Street Seaport area of lower Manhattan.
I was attracted by the visual, emotional and historical aspects of the Fulton Fish Market: the dramatic light, the nocturnal hours, the city setting, the myriad varieties of fish, the street-smart people engaged in hard physical labor, and the market process itself.
From 1984 to 1997, I shared space with the Meyer & Thompson Smoked Fish Company on Beekman Street. The ground floor area where the wholesalers sold fish in the mornings became my studio-gallery on afternoons and weekends. I called my studio Art in the Afternoon (fish in the morning). When the fishmongers left for the day, I hung my art work on fish boxes, pallets and scales, and started painting. I packed up each evening to make way for fish again. When the building was sold in 1997 I moved across the street to #1 Fulton Fish Market. I roamed the Market with my sketch book and camera, gathering images for watercolors I completed in my studio.
The Fulton Fish market left South street in 2005 for an indoor, refrigerated facility in the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center in the Bronx and I left #1 Fulton Fish Market. I still visit the Bronx market and still paint scenes of market life as it was on South Street and as it is in the Bronx.
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like to see New York City from every angle and could not pass
up an invitation to climb the cables of the Brooklyn Bridge and
stand on top. Sketching was not practical, so I took my camera
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becoming a licensed pilot and getting my Beech Sport, I started
painting airplanes as well. I traded my plane for a Corvette but
still take to the air, learning to fly a helicopter.
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of course paint Corvettes and other cars but find relaxation in
high performance driving at such race tracks as Pocono Speedway
and Watkins Glen in my silver 2002 Z06.
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Seaport District Cultural Association, New York City, 2007
PhotoGraphic Gallery, New York City, 2006
Art in Dialogue, New York-Estonia, New York City, 2006
Blue Links, Urban Center, New York City, 2004
*Mauro Graphics, Staten Island, NY, 2003
National Arts Club, New York City, 2002
Watercolor Magic, Hudson Guild, New York City, 2002
*Winter Watercolors, South Street Seaport Museum, New York City, 2001
Audubon Artists 59th Annual Exhibition, New York City, 2001
*While the City Sleeps, South Street Seaport Museum, New York City, 1999
Little Bites From the Big Apple, Stolen Buick Studio, Chicago, 1998
*Art in the Afternoon, New York City, 1984-1997
Still-Zinsel Gallery, New Orleans, 1996
Galeria Frazao, Salvador, Brazil, 1995
In the Grand Tradition, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, 1994
National Arts Club, New York City, 1976-1994
The League at the Cape, Provincetown, MA, 1993
Union League of Philadelphia, 1992
*American Merchant Marine Museum, Kings Point, NY, 1991
*Queens Borough Public Library, New York City, 1991
EAA Aviation Art Competition, Oshkosh, WI, 1987
Golden Age of Flight, National Air & Space Museum, Washington, DC, 1984
*James Hunt Barker Galleries, Nantucket, MA 1972-1982
*Owls Head Transportation Museum, Owls Head, ME 1981
ESTO '80, Stockholm, Sweden, 1980
*Association of American Railroads, Washington, DC, 1978
*Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME, 1976
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Artists Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, 1998 |
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New York Times, December 4, 2005 (feature)
New York Newsday, August 3, 2005 (feature)
The New Yorker Magazine, June 27, 2005
The Wall Street Journal, June 23, 2005
Time Out New York, June 23, 2005 (feature)
BPC Broadsheet, June 21, 2005 (feature)
Staten Island Advance, June 19, 2005
John Montone’s New York, 1010WINS Radio, September 2004 (feature)
New York Newsday (website video profile), May 2004
Tribeca Trib, February, 2004
By the Gladness of the River: Creativity at the Seaport, South Street Seaport Museum, 2004
New York Voices: On the Waterfront (PBS-TV) 2003
Staten Island Advance, April 6, 2003 (feature)
Marine News, March 17, 2003 (feature)
Tokyo Broadcasting System, Evening News, December 30, 2002
Secrets of New York City, Silver Lining Books, 2002 (feature)
Offshore Magazine, October 2002
National Fisherman, August 2002
New York Times, January 27, 2002 (feature)
Road Machines: Road Pavers, Rosen Publishing Group, 2002 (photography)
Brigitte Magazine, Germany, June 2000
Aquent Online Magazine, November 1999 (feature)
Watercolor Magazine, Fall 1999 (feature)
Latitudes Magazine, September-October 1999 (feature)
Going Places: New York City, PBS-TV, 1999
Tribeca Trib, March, 1999 (feature)
Who's Who of American Women, 20th Edition, 1998
New American Paintings, June 1997 (feature)
Art in America, January, 1996 (review)
Corvette Fever Magazine, September 1995, July 1997 (feature)
Vette Magazine, November 1995
Who's Who in the East, 24th Edition, 1994
New York Construction News, June 18, 1990 (feature)
Private Pilot Magazine, 1990 (feature)
Official Fulton Fish Market Cookbook (cover painting), 1989
History of Flight, National Air & Space Museum, 1988
Seaport Magazine, Summer 1987
On the Road with Charles Kuralt, 1985 (feature)
New Yorker Magazine, July 22, 1985
Staten Island Advance, August 4, 1985 (feature)
National Fisherman, February 1985 (feature)
New York Times, November 2, 1984 (feature)
Downeast Magazine, November 1981
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Performance Art Collaboration, Arboreal/Arboreve, New York City, 2002
Cow Parade, New York City, 2000
Guest Lecturer, South Street Seaport Museum, New York City, 1998-present
Documented North Channel Bridge construction project, New York City, 1990-91
Artist-in-residence, Club Med, Port St. Lucie, FL, 1989 |
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National Arts Club
Artists’ Fellowship
New York Artists Equity
Art Students League (Life Member)
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National Air & Space Museum, Washington, DC
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
American Merchant Marine Museum, Kings Point, NY
Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME
New York City Police Museum, New York City
National Arts Club, New York City
Veterans Administration, New York City
Association of American Railroads, Washington, DC
Morgan Stanley, New York City
St. Joseph’s Healthcare Foundation, Bangor, ME
Bank of America, New York City
Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, New York City
Dominican College, Orangeburg, NY
Pfizer Inc., New York City
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