2008, acrylic on canvas: 44" (h) X 55" (w)

I was born in New York City in 1923. I attended public schools with three years as a science major at the College of the City of New York. In Wyoming, on the GI Bill of Rights after three years in the military (Army Air Forces, with time spent in the Philippines) I worked for the art department as a student assistant and received my BA in Fine Arts. The faculty included the surrealist Leon Kelly, the abstract expressionist George McNeil and the geometric abstractionist Ilya Bolotowsky. Back to New York, I attended Columbia University and received my MA in Fine Arts and Art Education. I taught secondary school art for two years in Roselle, New Jersey before returning to New York City where I worked at commercial interior design.

In 1968 I became a professor, adjunct faculty Art Department at the Nassau Community College in Garden City, NY. I continued painting and exhibiting, and in 1971 in addition to the college teaching, I began full time art teaching in the secondary school system of Port Washington, N.Y.

In 1970 I had my first solo showing in Huntington, N.Y. and I continue to exhibit regularly. In 1984 I retired from teaching and I moved to Belfast, Maine, with my second wife, the late writer, Barbara Kramer. Ten years later we bought our winter home in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. I continue to divide my time between my homes and my studios in Maine and Florida. I exhibit regularly in both states.

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