Biggest Artistic Inspiration:
VISUAL ARTISTS Rembrandt MILLET HIRAM WILLIAMS MATISSE Frank Stella Grace Hartigan Hokusai Saul Steinberg Malvina Hoffman HIROSHIGE GIORGIONE ROAULT COROT Modigliani Fanny Hillsmith Chardin Andy Goldsworthy WILLIAM GLACKENS Terrence LaNoue Delacroix FILIPPO LIPPI Eliot Porter Gauguin Van Gogh Diebenkorn MONET Chagall DEGAS drawings Signac RODIN ROBERT HENRI and his book THE ART SPIRIT Pieter Bruegel the Elder Leland Bell MORISOT Margaret Ross Tolbert Jawlenski Albert Pinkham Ryder Hokusai Sargent TURNER SAM FRANCIS Joseph Raffael
and Paramhansa YOGANANDA Will Rodgers Glenis Redmond Kurt Vonnegut Richard Feynman Ella Fitzgerald Clare Hanrahan Ursula LeGuin Lena Feldman Natalie Merchant Annie Dillard RUMI Singh Kaur LINCOLN Annie Lalley Opal Whitely Greg Brown IRIS DEMENT A NEW EARTH by Eckart Tolle Sinead OConnor Samuel Clemons Sarah Vaughan Charles Fraziers novel COLD MOUNTAIN Alison Krauss THE FINDHORN GARDEN Steinbechs LOGBOOK OF THE SEA OF CORTEZ Cyd Charisse Li Po Robinson Jeffers EMMYLOU HARRIS Terence McKenna Mary Travers Samuel Mockbee PAUL ROBESON Patty Larkin Toshiro Mifune RILKES book LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET twyla tharp Frank Muller reading BOOKS-ON-TAPE Pat Conroys THE PRINCE OF TIDES Arianna Huffington Mark Knopfler Defoes ROBINSON CRUSOE Jennifer Warnes DICKENS A Tale of Two Cities Chrissie Hynde Christine Lassiter John Lilly Margaret Atwood CHARLIE CHAPLIN Akira Kurosawa Sara McLachlan Wilber and Orville Wright Cyd Charisse Woody Guthrie THOR HEYERDAHL String Quartet number 2 in D by BORODIN Jennifer Warnes Jackie Robinson Donald Sutherland WHITMANs introduction to his book LEAVES OF GRASS, which is only in the first edition YES Alan Watts ANN DUNN Nat King Cole W. B. Yeats PETER GABRIEL Glenn Goulds recording of J.S.Bachs GOLDBERG VARIATIONS Ram Dass Jo Stafford Jimi Hendrix Edward Abbey Rodgers and Hammersteins CAROUSEL THE CHICAGO ART INSTITUTE GARY SNYDERS journals Barbara Cook Kahil Gibrans THE PROPHET Gene Kelly Streisand NOAM CHOMSKY Tom Waits Gershwins PORGY AND BESS Cate Blanchett J.S. Bachs THE ART OF THE FUGUE Cuba Gooding ANI DIFRANCO the 1958 33 rpm record CHRISTMAS WITH THE TRAPP FAMILY SINGERS Kevin Spacey GREENPEACE Merle Haggard Hemingways FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS Jean Cocteaus 1946 movie BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, and the movies WHAT DREAMS MAY COME, THE ENDURANCE, WATER, METROPOLIS, CHAPLIN, IPHIGENEIA, KISMET,The Golden Compass, ELIZABETH, AMADEUS, XANADU, ORLANDO, the 1935 MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM, Cast Away, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, THE JERK, THE CORPORATION, GROUNDHOG DAY, I Heart Huckabees,and CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON Louise Lecavalier Fred Astaire Joni Mitchell sTEVE mARTIN J.KRISHNAMURTI Leon Russell Johnathan Swift Irving Berlins EASTER PARADE Steve McQueen as PAPILLION The Byrds Buddy Holly Mahavishnu Orchestras BIRDS OF FIRE Robert A. Johnson robin williams swimming underwater Rimski-Korsakovs SCHEHEREZADE the Electric Light Orchestra Michners TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC neil youngweld CORTEZ sleeping Joni Summers Schuberts AVE MARIA dreams Meryl Streep THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ANNIE LENNOX smooth stones BEETHOVEN Irish clover TORI AMOS birdsong CARL SANDBURG Richie Havens Bonnie Raitt dragonflies
Why Did You Become An Artist:
Why Rembrandts paintings, VIEW OF TOLEDO by El Greco, Millet, COROT, Van Gogh, Modigliani, Arthur Rackham, marbles, coins, sunlight, hand painted Japanese kites, flowers, Japanese paper decorations hanging sunlit in the wind,
-- ART LEADS THE WAY FROM LIFE AS ROUTINE TO LIFE AS REVELATION -- VISUAL ARTISTS Rembrandt MILLET HIRAM WILLIAMS MATISSE Frank Stella Grace Hartigan Hokusai Saul Steinberg Malvina Hoffman HIROSHIGE GIORGIONE ROAULT COROT Modigliani Fanny Hillsmith Chardin Andy Goldsworthy WILLIAM GLACKENS Terrence LaNoue Delacroix FILIPPO LIPPI Eliot Porter Gauguin Van Gogh Diebenkorn MONET Chagall DEGAS drawings Signac RODIN ROBERT HENRI and his book THE ART SPIRIT Pieter Bruegel the Elder Leland Bell MORISOT Margaret Ross Tolbert Jawlenski Albert Pinkham Ryder Hokusai Sargent TURNER SAM FRANCIS Joseph Raffael
and Paramhansa YOGANANDA Will Rodgers Glenis Redmond Kurt Vonnegut Richard Feynman Ella Fitzgerald Clare Hanrahan Ursula LeGuin Lena Feldman Natalie Merchant Annie Dillard RUMI Singh Kaur LINCOLN Annie Lalley Opal Whitely Greg Brown IRIS DEMENT A NEW EARTH by Eckart Tolle Sinead OConnor Samuel Clemons Sarah Vaughan Charles Fraziers novel COLD MOUNTAIN Alison Krauss THE FINDHORN GARDEN Steinbechs LOGBOOK OF THE SEA OF CORTEZ Cyd Charisse Li Po Robinson Jeffers EMMYLOU HARRIS Terence McKenna Mary Travers Samuel Mockbee PAUL ROBESON Patty Larkin Toshiro Mifune RILKES book LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET twyla tharp Frank Muller reading BOOKS-ON-TAPE Pat Conroys THE PRINCE OF TIDES Arianna Huffington Mark Knopfler Defoes ROBINSON CRUSOE Jennifer Warnes DICKENS A Tale of Two Cities Chrissie Hynde Christine Lassiter John Lilly Margaret Atwood CHARLIE CHAPLIN Akira Kurosawa Sara McLachlan Wilber and Orville Wright Cyd Charisse Woody Guthrie THOR HEYERDAHL String Quartet number 2 in D by BORODIN Jennifer Warnes Jackie Robinson Donald Sutherland WHITMANs introduction to his book LEAVES OF GRASS, which is only in the first edition YES Alan Watts ANN DUNN Nat King Cole W. B. Yeats PETER GABRIEL Glenn Goulds recording of J.S.Bachs GOLDBERG VARIATIONS Ram Dass Jo Stafford Jimi Hendrix Edward Abbey Rodgers and Hammersteins CAROUSEL THE CHICAGO ART INSTITUTE GARY SNYDERS journals Barbara Cook Kahil Gibrans THE PROPHET Gene Kelly Streisand NOAM CHOMSKY Tom Waits Gershwins PORGY AND BESS Cate Blanchett J.S. Bachs THE ART OF THE FUGUE Cuba Gooding ANI DIFRANCO the 1958 33 rpm record CHRISTMAS WITH THE TRAPP FAMILY SINGERS Kevin Spacey GREENPEACE Merle Haggard Hemingways FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS Jean Cocteaus 1946 movie BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, and the movies WHAT DREAMS MAY COME, THE ENDURANCE, WATER, METROPOLIS, CHAPLIN, IPHIGENEIA, KISMET,The Golden Compass, ELIZABETH, AMADEUS, XANADU, ORLANDO, the 1935 MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM, Cast Away, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, THE JERK, THE CORPORATION, GROUNDHOG DAY, I Heart Huckabees,and CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON Louise Lecavalier Fred Astaire Joni Mitchell sTEVE mARTIN J.KRISHNAMURTI Leon Russell Johnathan Swift Irving Berlins EASTER PARADE Steve McQueen as PAPILLION The Byrds Buddy Holly Mahavishnu Orchestras BIRDS OF FIRE Robert A. Johnson robin williams swimming underwater Rimski-Korsakovs SCHEHEREZADE the Electric Light Orchestra Michners TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC neil youngweld CORTEZ sleeping Joni Summers Schuberts AVE MARIA dreams Meryl Streep THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ANNIE LENNOX smooth stones BEETHOVEN Irish clover TORI AMOS birdsong CARL SANDBURG Richie Havens Bonnie Raitt dragonflies
Personal Biography
My teachers at Ferguson High School, Newport News, Virginia MARY ELLEN TABACK - Geometry George Chavatel - Art.
at the University of Florida Hiram Williams - PAINTING. HIRAM WILLIAMS is appreciated as a gifted and perceptive teacher with a firm and fluent knowledge of the history of Western Art - a knowledge which he could communicate. He was an innovative and masterful draftsman and painter and a warm and engaging person John Ward - Italian Renaissance Art History Jerry Uelsmann - photography DRAWING Stuart Purser and Nate Shiner.
I am U.S. Navy Vietnam era veteran Jan.1968- Nov.1971. I was on AIRCRAFT CARRIERS.
I have lived without a television since August 1965. I have been painting with oils for 47 years.