Welliver told me he had taught me all he could teach me and that I should go to New York and hang around with some "hard-nosed young Painters."

I took a year off from school and stayed in Philadelphia. I tried to put the spontaneity of the ocean paintings into abstract paintings.

The result was a forced spontaneity and some miserable paintings.

not a Pollock

I like this one the best.

Tried using house paint

An attempt at representation

sketch

another representation work, perhaps inspired by friend Bill Walsh

another self portrait