Impressionist landscapes and cityscapes
This is one of a pair of paintings of the olive grove on the grounds of the castle in Beja, Portugal. In this painting, the trees are painted as hundreds of individual leaves, rather than the usual way of treating the whole leaf-mass as one volume with light and shadow. The other painting of this pair is painted differently.
Oil on canvas
20”w x 16”h
$700.
This is a museum village near Amsterdam, where they restore historic windmills. I picked a square format canvas and a very low horizon in the style of seventeenth century Dutch landscapes.
Oil on canvas
24”w x 24”h
$750.
This is one of a pair of paintings of the olive grove on the grounds of the castle in Beja, Portugal. In this painting, the trees are painted as masses of light and shadow, and some leaves are added afterward to create the impression of leafiness. The other is painted differently.
Oil on canvas
20”w x 16”h
$700.
Susan and I spent a month in Malta many years ago. We were visiting the smaller island of Gozo, on the way to the old capital, Mdina. While we were in the sun at the bottom of the hill, it was showering in the city. When we got to the city gates, we were drenched. Every inch of Malta is terraced and farmed and not a spot is wasted.
My aim was to capture the drama of the medieval city on a hill with the terraced gardens flanking the slope. The dramatic cloud was a bonus.
oil on canvas
36″w x 24″h
$950.
This is a still life of golden delicious apples lying on a sheet. I don’t paint many still lifes, but they were a specialty of my first painting teacher, my uncle, Israel Malamud.I painted it a few years ago, just after a traveling Cezanne show cape to Philadelphia. Susan and I have visited Cezanne’s studio in Arles and stood where he stood to paint his many paintings of Mont Sante Victoire.
It is thickly painted and the folds in the sheet and the diagonal that they set up are as much the subject of the painting as the apples.
Oil on Canvas
24″wx18″h
$750.
This is the only bridge in France covered by buildings (like the Ponte Vecchio in Florence) If you stand in the spot that my other painting of canal boats in Narbonne was done from, and turn your hear to face the other way, this is what you see. The water was perfectly still like a mirror.
When the Canal du Midi was built, the merchants of Narbonne realized that they would be bypassed and the town would whither and die, so they built the Canal de la Robine to connect with the new transportation system.
oil on canvas
18″w x 24″ h
$750.
The Pincio Park, or the gardens of the Villa Borghese, are the Rome equivalent of New York’s Central Park. We’d often sit in our favorite café in the park to write Rome Secrets or CityTravelBlog. This is the Temple of Aesculapius in the park. It was built in the early twentieth century as an ornament for the little duck pond in front of it. It is actually just a temple front, with no building behind.
This is one of the many classical focal points in the park created in the early twentieth century as a green relief in very urban Rome.
Oil on canvas
36”w x 24”h
$950.
This is the Palace of Monserrate, a quinta (estate) in Sintra, Portugal. It is Victorian Gothic and spectacular inside. Sintra is a beautiful town near Lisbon and is surrounded by palaces and country houses. Susan and I have visited Sintra several times and we particularly love Victorian Gothic since we live in a Victorian Gothic cottage ourselves.
oil on canvas
30″w x 22″h
$750.
Susan and I were driving up the Garden State Parkway from Cape May when I saw this. A huge, dark, threatening, cloud was hanging over the wetlands that separate Wildwood from the mainland of New Jersey. I went home and stretched a huge canvas to suit the enormous scene.
oil on canvas
5’w x 3’h
$1200.
This is where the Emperor Constantine is said to have seen a vision of a fiery cross in the sky. After his victory, he tolerated, then required Christianity as the state religion. Amazingly, the Roman bridge is still there.
Oil on canvas
24”w x 18”h
$750.
