I returned to school in Fall of 1972 and attempted to get back to where I was a year and a half before as a representational painter.
After Homer 2
1972
oil
36 x 48
a copy of a Homer
Bathing Figure 5
1972
watercolor
16 x 30
bather
Rex Avenue 2
1973
watercolor
24 a 36
View from Mom's porch in Chestnut Hill. Welliver said I had put a "figurative lid" on my painting. Keep the lid off as long as you can, he said. I did.
Rex Avenue 1
1973
watercolor
24 x 36
summer in Chestnut Hill
Rex Avenue 3
1973
watercolor
24 x 36
view down Rex Avenue
Self Portrait
1973
oil
20 x 30
school self portrait
Street Scene
1972
oil
42 x 48
South Street, perhaps
Bathing Figure 8
1974
watercolor
14 x 17
found my touch again with some of these watercolors
Bathing Figure 9
1974
watercolor
14 x 17
more bathers
Bathing Figure 4
1974
watercolor
14 x 17
overall feel of a Pollock with Ryder influence
Bathing Figure 11
1974
oil
60 x 72
did a series of large canvases
Ocean Painting 4
1974
oil
60 x 96
Rudy Burckhardt said he thought this was the best painting in the student show of 1974. Painting is lost. 8 foot paintings are a problem to move and to store.
Ocean Painting 6
19073
oil
36 x 48
medium size oil
Ocean Painting 7
1973
oil
60 x 96
another 8 footer
Two Bathers
1974
oil
14 x 13
splashy bathers
Dunes
1974
oil
30 x 40
one of the first of many views of ocean through dunes
Four Bathers
1974
oil
24 x 28
I always liked this composition, well metered by a consistent brush stroke.