Showing posts with label subject: beach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label subject: beach. Show all posts

Thursday, July 12, 2018

Sea Isle City

This painting, made in my senior year at R.I.S.D., was one of eight shown in my first gallery exhibition a few months later in Boston:

Sea Isle City
7" x 9", oil on wood panel, 1969
Private collection, Massachusetts

The narrative is more autobiographical than usual, based on a childhood memory - a visit to Sea Isle City, New Jersey in the early 1950s, me sitting on a stoop wearing a straw cowboy hat, attended by a young baby-sitter whose bathing suit was much more modest in real life. A while back I looked at street views of the town on Google Maps and these cottages on stilts are long gone, but I remember them clearly. There's a photo in the family album too:


July 1952
Sea Isle City, New Jersey

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Two New Paintings

Since completing Interior at Night last month, I've finished two small paintings: Nauset Beach and Julian's Treatment.  

Nauset Beach
7" x 4"     oil on linen     2013

The first, Nauset Beach, is a relatively simple composition, juxtaposing yellow and blue, and counterbalanced with black. I've always liked working with the basic theme of a bather wearing a cap at the beach and being able to place a strong note of color against a blue field. Here are two more paintings, from 1990 and 1992:


Bather: Lifeguard
4 1/2" x 4 1/2"     oil on linen     1990
Private Collection, Maine

Bather: Gray Day
4 1/2" x 4 1/2"    oil on linen     1992
Private Collection, Massachusetts

The second new painting, Julian's Treatment, originates from a set of drawings about men and women having beauty procedures.

Julian's Treatment
6" x 4 1/4"     oil on linen     2013

Sunday, December 30, 2007

Paintings from 2007

Aztec Lounge
24" x 24"    oil on linen    2007




Barcelona
11" x 11"    oil on linen     2007
Private Collection, New York

Loretta with Sand Dollar
5 1/2" x 4 1/4"    oil on linen     2007
Private Collection, Florida

quotes

"There is more power in telling little than in telling all."
- Mark Rothko

“The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meanings are unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.”
- Magritte

"Now, the idea is to get everything right -- it's not just color or form or space or line -- it's everything all at once."
- Richard Diebenkorn