Ucchia Marini carving a block

This is a painting of my dear friend Ucchia Marini, who along with her husband Mark are carvers and make beautiful stone sculptures. I painted this from life in the sculpture studios of the Art Students League of New York.

Under the North Light

Here's a painting of the north light studio of studio seven at the Art Student's League of New York.

Old St. Patrick's Cathedral

​Here's a nocturne I painted of Old St. Patrick's church in Manhattan. I was standing on the corner of Prince and Lafayette and had a little thumb box with me - very stealthy.

A corner of the Studio

A corner of the Studio with accouterments of the painter's craft. The drapery and cast cabinet, the skeleton in its closet, canvases stacked above the small changing closet.a cast of Donatello's David for inspiration and the chair and coffee cup of the model who is posing just to the right, out of our field of vision.

The Painting Class

In the Studio at the Art Students League

Art Students League Sculpture Atelier

I painted this painting of the sculpture studios at the Art Students League of New York. I was making clay sculptures and learning casting for a time in the mornings there and was always fascinated by the skylit windows that face onto 58th Street. These northlight windows face onto the street and once had unobstructed light when the American Fine Arts building was built in 1892. Since then, Manhattan has grown up all around and I'll always remember the effect of working on my sculptures on a rainy day and seeing the New Yorkers with their umbrellas silhouetted against the dirty milk glass of these windows scurrying by- sort of like some painting that Manet or Degas would paint.

North Light Studio

This is a painting I did of a fellow artist friend painting a still life, contre jour " against the day" of the window.

The Art Class

I painted this scene at the Art Students league of New York. It is from the back of studio seven looking north toward the skylights. Holding forth with the brush and demonstrating the Art of Portraiture is my own teacher, Frank Mason.

Portrait of Tommy

I've painted many a portrait and thought I'd post this one of Tommy- a much-loved model at the Art Student's League of New York.
Gosh, the more I look at this the more it reminds me of Gilbert Stuart's portrait of George Washington where ol' George's dentures are not fitting so well and distends the bottom lip out a bit, much as it is doing here.

Art Students League Interiors

Here are some more paintings of interiors at the Art Students League of New York

 This is a view of the prop closet in studio seven, up on the fourth floor of the league.

Presiding over everything is the Donatello David.

In the back of the studio were painting racks and lockers and every so often an intrepid artist that would defiantly stake claim to a spot in the dim light and wrest a masterpiece out of thin air. 

There was a time when the light on the third and fourth floors of the League was glorious almost spiritual.

Art Students League Studio Scenes

Art Students League Studio Interiors

Walter Mosley under the Pitti Tondo in Studio Seven

Ucchia carving at the League

In the Clay Studios-Art Students League

More from my sketchbook

Sketchbook drawings

Mason Landscape class-

Stowe Vermont

Lynn Loftus Elliott

Frank Mason- 

Leslie Watkins

Sally Branch

Mason in Central Park

Sketches of Frank Mason landscape painting class in Stowe,Vermont

More sketches from my time with Frank Mason in Vermont - these in Harry Burnham's barn for the weekly Saturday critique of the week's paintings.

It was chilly that day in June

Frank Mason Class Art Students League Interiors

Some oil sketches I painted of the  Frank Mason Class, These interior scenes were in the beloved studio seven at  the Art Students League of New York.

Emiko painting from underneath the Pitti Tondo

He Suk Kim under the light of studio seven's skylight.

Mason demonstrating in studio seven of the Art Students League with...

Pamela Talese,D.F. White,Lynn Loftus,Sally Branch and John Doyle

Frank Mason at the Art Students League

Sketches of Frank Mason at the Art Students League and at the Stowe, Vermont plein air class he conducted every June.

Figurative Drawings on Ebay

Hi Gang-

Here's a posting of all the figure drawings I currently have up on Ebay.

I'll try to connect the links.

Happy Shopping!

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Woodstock Class Demos Artistic Anatomy

Classroom demos from my Artistic Anatomy Class

Drawn on a big 48" Roll of the Borden Riley 410 and Canson Mi Tientes .