Still Lives from my Beacon Exhibit

Still Lives from my Beacon Exhibit

Buddha and Sunflowers

Peaches

The Offering

Silver and Lupine

The Painting Class

In the Studio at the Art Students League

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.

Stowe Vermont Canoe Access

Here are a few paintings that I painted at the Canoe Access in Stowe Vermont. 

I attended the Frank Mason landscape class there every month of June during the late 1980's and 90's

and have painted numerous scenes all around northern Vermont.

Art Students League Studio Sketches

Here's a collection of paintings from the studios at the the Art Students League of New York.

A view of the prop closet and the Donatello in Studio Seven, Frank Mason's class

Studio Three next to the cafeteria in a Leffel workshop

I crawled up on the sill under the skylight in Studio Seven 

and painted this looking down on the class.

Frank Mason at the Canoe Access 1992

I've finally started to edit some of this content. From 1992, this video documents the Frank Mason landscape class, held in Stowe, Vermont during the month of June  from the 1960's through June of 2007. This episode takes place at the canoe access, a marshy area extending off of the Waterbury reservoir which was an amazingly picturesque place to paint.

Frank Mason on Velasquez

Classic scenes of the maestro himself expounding on Velasquez and seventeenth century Spanish painting. It should be easy to recognize, for those who are fortunate to have been there, the friendly confines of Harry Burnham's barn, where on any given Saturday in June, the landscape class assembled for the weekly critique.
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Painting with Frank Mason

The two classic aspects of Frank Mason- One with his distinctive black smock in the classroom peering over a drawing with the utmost reverence as his hand guides the red ochre chalk over the paper, and the other as the landscape painter in suspenders and joyful countenance- it was infectious and the Art Spirit emanated from the man into others around him.

Painting in Vermont with Frank

Usually several of us would share a house in and around the village of Stowe, Vermont. For me , that was usually at the Faust House on mountain road. The house was situated near little Indian creek which paralleled the road that led to the ski resort. Behind the house was a beautiful view of mount Mansfield and sometimes I would simply walk to a spot behind the house with my paints and my dog Griz, and paint a sunset scene.

Frank Mason Landscape Painting Class

Every June since the 1970's, Frank Mason taught a Landscape painting workshop in Stowe Vermont.For an entire month a loyal following of students from Mason's Painting class the Art Students' League along with a smattering of students from all over the US and abroad,would paint the local Vermont countryside. For those of us fortunate enough to have attended these classes, they were a life defining moment and would influence our artistic vision through our entire lives.I kept a sketchbook with me at all times then, a habit I formed during my years of study with George Sotos,and recorded many of those moments where on a Saturday afternoon the class would assemble in Harry Burnham's barn,for the weekly Critique.One by one, Mason would critique all the paintings that the students were bold enough to bring in for his keen evaluation.These critiques were an important helpful lesson in objectivity as more than once I was brought back to reality, mostly gently, sometimes with a thud- as the veil was lifted from my eyes and the true appearance of the painting was revealed to me.