While living in Allentown on Hamilton St., and Geissinger Street in Bethlehem, I taught Drawing, Figure Drawing, Oil Painting and Color Courses at The Baum School of Art and Moravian College. I also taught a Foundation Drawing Course at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. I prepared and presented the art student’s show at Moravian College […]

Upon arriving in Paris, I went to the American Student Center where I met a young woman who, much to my surprise, was the daughter of the then Governor of Maine, my home state. We chatted, and she told me the person I wanted to speak to was Mrs. Sargent, wife of the Reverend Sargent. […]

We first went to Barcelona, then spent a month in the Hotel Inglis in the city of Valencia while I drove about the countryside trying to find a house to rent in a country where no one rented houses. Everyone lived in the house they owned. It was winter; wet, dark and not at all […]

After I graduated from the Ruskin I went back to the States. I wanted a job that involved drawing or painting so I could pursue my studies in art for my own purposes, and I could build a body of work. I had a cousin in a Boston suburb who worked in advertising. The economy […]

When I was finishing up my time at the Ruskin, we had to submit a portfolio for the diploma we would get from the University of Oxford. It was really the only time the link between the University and the Ruskin existed. Along with the portfolio, we had to submit an essay and then present […]

One summer vacation, while I studied at The Ruskin, I took a trip to Florence, Italy, with a young student named John Stevens. While on the train from the Port to Paris to change trains, we met an Italian girl named Emma Bionde. She was in tears, her mascara running down her face and her […]