Portrait Project
Sincere eye contact is somewhat rare in the 21st century. There is little that a portrait artist can accomplish without such communication with the subject. Leonard Bernstein was an exception to my requirement of this fundamental human experience. For example, subjects often seem to feel adrift when I ask that they forgo texting while sitting. A portrait is a window of time, place, and personal affect. We go from the generic to the specific individual in a portrait; above all, revealing interaction between two people.
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- ronn yedidia portrait in oil on linen
- Portrait of a Young Girl. oil on canvas, 18″ x 16″
- Portrait of Leonard Bernstein, oil on canvas, 50″ x 48″
- Leonard Bernstein
- Pauline Gonen-Smith by barbara kerstetter and leon axel
- Portrait of Gabriel, age three, son of Mona Simpson, oil on canvas, 24″ x 22″
- Henry Grimm
- Ayaka Hogg, daughter of David Hogg and Eri Minami
- Severine Schrameck, daughter of Helene de Largentaye and Olivier Schrameck
- Portrait of Andre Michel-Schub, oil on canvas, 48″ x 46″
- Portrait of Anne Walston, oil on canvas, 24″ x 22″
- Portrait of a Young Girl, age five, oil on canvas, 22″ x 20″