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Hometown

New York City

Places I've been

MAINE! (Wouldn't live anywhere else), NJ, Wash DC, Key West, lot of FL, AL, PA, Norfolk VA, Paris, Rome, Livorno, Sienna, Cairo, Casablanca, Athens, Izmir, London, Caen, Cannes, St Tropez, New England; Montreal, St Sauveur; Gitmo, Jamaica

More about me

ART:

Pure-bred American, 57 varieties. Born & raised in Queens, NYC, w/ ancestors back to New Amsterdam. Studied briefly at Art Students League of NY between university & Navy OCS. Primarily self-taught. We went camping in Maine in 1970 and moved here in 1971.

Juried assoc. member of Pastel Society of America

Founding member & 2nd Pres (2000-05), Pastel Painters of Maine

Island Art Guild and Queensboro Society of Art in NYC. Juried member, Art Guild of the Kennebunks; member Sanford Art Ass'n, Pastel Society of Eastern Canada, Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod.

Love to paint Nature: land-, sea-, sky-scapes. Most beautiful part of Nature, however, is a nude female, my other subject matter.

 OTHERWISE:

Grew up during the Depression & WW2, received a BA cum laude in Classical Languages (8 yrs Latin, 2 Greek), officer in Naval Reserve (3 yrs at sea, 2 on shore duty, Italy), MA in English & Comparative Lit on Woodrow Wilson fellowship, teaching English in Univ & going part-time for PhD in Renaissance Comp Lit (Fr, Ital, Eng), then Assistant Prof of Comp Lit at Queens C (City Univ of NY) but didn't publish, so 4 years in Maine college. School started failing so went to work as Tech Writer for the Navy and later Systems Analyst, and continued teaching part-time. Retired from work 1993 and from teaching 2003. Now-enjoying art full time.

Activities

pastel painting, sleeping late, countryside, travel overseas

Favorite Charities

Disabled American Veterans, NRLC

Favorite Music

Beethoven rules!, Mozart, Puccini, clarinet, violin; Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, dixieland; Nana Mouskouri, Diana Krall

Favorite TV Shows

Red Sox games, tennis Opens & matches; otherwise, don't watch much but listen to classical radio or CDs, LPs, tapes

Favorite Movies

You Can't Take It With You (a major influence on my attitudes), Casablanca, High Society, My Fair Lady, Laurel & Hardy, The Man Who Knew Too Little.

Favorite Books

Too many to list (I used to teach). Edmund Spenser, Chaucer, Dante, Rabelais, Dylan Thomas, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Samuel Daniel, Dostoevsky, and, yes, James Joyce's "Ulysses." For modern fiction, Morgan Llewellyn & Clancy whenever the library gets some

Favorite Quotes

I hope there's painting in Heaven (Corot's last words), We'll always have Paris (Casablanca)

Favorite People

My wife & family, local friends, friends here at Eons

Favorite Places

Florence & Livorno, Italy; Paris & Normandy, Athens, and definitely MAINE! Wouldn't live anywhere else

Favorite Animals

Snoopy, and normal dogs--cocker spaniels, shelties, golden retrievers; alley cats. We've had 3 of each, often both species at a time & they got along fine. We are now currently owned by a 4th cat.

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