Below you'll see a series of autobiographical paintings by me. I contracted Polio in 1951. These paintings are all 8" x 10" acrylics on pre-stretched canvases. They are not for sale, but I welcome your ideas and comments. Just send them to me at the E-mail address below. As time goes by, I'll be adding more paintings.
JURORS CHOICE AWARD FOR 2006 in the Bryn Mawr ArtAbility Show. Here's my painting of the clinic waiting room at St. Charles Hospital in Port Jefferson, NY. It was here I came every 6 months for a check up. Watch this site to see how these paintings progress. Paintings I tried to copy in my painting are: Right side wall, "Virgin and Child" by Perugino; Left side wall, "Holy Family with St. Anne" by Da Vinci; Left back wall, "Rest on the Flight" by Runge; Right back wall, "Christ with Little Children" by Komaromi-Kacz.
Here's my painting of me in my body cast. I had a spinal fusion in September, 1960. I cam home in November. During the day, from November '60 to April '61, I would lie on this table, with a cot mattress, by my living room windows in Whitestone, NYC. My dog, Tiny, is under my day-bed. My parakeet, CoCo, is on my knee. My tape recorder is under the table. I used the tape recorder to record little plays I wrote and which my friends and I would act out. My school books are on the chair at left. I was on home instructions from 1960 to 1966. Come back to see how this painting progresses. WON HONORARABLE MENTION IN 2007 ART FIRST COMPITITION.
Here's the whirlpool/hydrotherapy room in St. Charles Hospital in Port Jefferson on Long Island in New York. In 1952 to 1953, I received whirlpool baths as a treatment for polio. I was lowered into the bath on a suspended stretcher on an electric winch. It was scary to this 5 and 6-year-old kid. WON HONORARABLE MENTION IN 2007 ART FIRST COMPITITION.
Here's the beginnings of a painting of me and my school mates getting our polio shots back in 1955. The school was St. Luke's in Whitestone, New York City. I think we were in the 3 or 4th grade. Come back to watch the progress of this painting.
Here's the final painting in my autobiographical works. This is my fiancee, Jenny, and me on an 8" x 10" canvas. I did it in acrylic. Talk about happy endings in a life series. This is ours.
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