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HAMILTON WAY

Small sketch of houses opposite our home painted in 1957. The influence of Manet starting to appear. My first effort with oil pa…
ALTAR, PRIOR PARK CHAPEL.

21" x 14' 1958. Tempera paint on paper. The only surviving painting from my years in high school. The boarding school I attended…
FT SILL WATER TOWER

1966 approx 18"x 30" oil on canvas. Army service still provided some opportunities for recreational painting. A view from the…
KITCHEN UTENSILS #2

1968 16" x 20' oil on board. Veering towards abstraction a la Georges Braque.
Untitled 1970

Undergraduate excercise
SFO APARTMENT c1970

A view of our living room on California and Divisidero
BERKELEY FIGURE STUDY image 7

Figure drawing was strongly emphasized at Berkeley
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MFA graduate show, Stanford 1975

I reverted to representational work around this time after the large Berkeley abstracts.
MFA graduate show, Stanford 1975

Opposite view.
PATIO CHAIRS AND MAT

21 X 26" 1976. oil on paper. Smaller works were the norm during the early years after college.
EL CERRITO UNDERPASS

approx 22" x 22". oil on paper. The East Bay provided an interesting mix of subject matter.
DECK WITH TREE

22" X 28" . oil on board.
APARTMENT ON YOLO AVE.

1976 oil on paper. View across the street. I became obsessed with angles and diagonals for a time.
SHELL STATION

54" x 72" . oil on canvas . Our move to Missouri gave me garage space to work on larger paintings. I started using photos as an a…
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Some works on paper from early 1990's pinned up on the garage wall. Even a 400 square foot space is small when shared with the fa…
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MRS WALES' GARDEN

View from my bedroom window in North London painted on a return visit for old times sake. Early Impressionism still pulls at the…