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Portrait of My Uncle, Joseph P. Allen IV

My third attempt at the BP National Portrait Gallery competition (2014).  Given the poetic paradox between medium and subject matter (oil-portrait-meets-astronaut), I thought my chances were good.  Again rejected.
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Netherland

News Update, June 2013 Netherland was pre-selected for the for the 7th Figurativas Painting and Sculpture Competition 2013, in Barcelona, Spain. Netherland is the first completed work from a series of paintings started in the Fall…
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Villas of Rome, Volume I

*Villa Ada: Collection of Joseph and Angela RochlitzVilla BorgheseView of the Circus Maximus*La Caffarella: Private Collection All paintings made in the Summer of 2010 during a painting workshop entitled "The Villas of Rome - Painting…
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Drawing with Morley

In the Spring of 2008 I had the great pleasure to accompany Morley Safer on some drawing excursions.  The conversations easily beat the scenery we chose to sketch (and remember, we were in Rome).
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Courtship

I remember this painting as the quintessential example of a start that gave no hint of the coming finish.  Its antithesis is The Hunt; I sketched what I wanted and that's what it became.