Art Students League Personalities

Greg Kreutz

Frank O'Cain

Alexander Eliott

Robert Beverly Hale

Here are some quick sketches of painters, students, and educators that frequented the historic hallways of the Art Students League.

Art Students League Sketches

Nick Oberling and James Prater in the ASL office

John Doyle at the first window

Selections from my sketchbook -scenes and people from my time as a student at the Art Students League of New York
Included here are views of John Doyle, James Prater, and Nick Oberling all accomplished painters who were my fellow classmates in the Mason class, working at the front desk at the League.

George Sotos

Here is a conte crayon portrait I drew of George Sotos. I studied Visual Vocabulary with him during the 80's in Chicago, Florida, and New York. He currently teaches in Chicago at the Drawing Workshop.

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 3

More from Mason's class in Stowe Vermont.

Painting in Vermont with Frank 2

Some more views from my sketchbook

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.