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A selection of old drawings and a few paintings from my student days. Filled with errors, and prone to subjects that reflect the typical enthusiasms of the young, but there are, I think, many good things in them for all that.
I dug these up last winter only after many years, in response to a request from Southwest Minnesota State University, where a show of my drawings was recently held.
As might be expected, most of my student work is copywork after the masters. Curiously, this was never assigned work -- modernism had Harvard's art department firmly in its grip in the 1970s. Although I could not have articulated it at the time, I felt more or less instinctively that there was a particular challenge in translating the essential matters of form -- particularly balance and rhythm -- at work in the great sculptors' work to the 2-D language of line and stroke. I don't often work from three dimensions these days, but my struggle to bridge the three-dimensional world of our visual experience to the flat surface of a canvas continues in all of my current work.
