by Jeffrey M Levine | Dec 8, 2019
I’ve long been a fan of J.M.W. Turner’s huge luminous oils that hang in many museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in my hometown of Manhattan. However I was unaware of his watercolors, and when I learned about the exhibit at the Mystic Seaport Museum I had...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Dec 4, 2019
While thumbing through a pile of used books for sale by a homeless vendor in Union Square I came across one entitled Through Darkest Adolescence by Richard Armour. The book contained illustrations that depicted the tribulations of young teenagers in concise and...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Nov 30, 2019
This past summer while roaming the Maine countryside looking for enticing scenes for plein air painting I came across a piece of American railway history. It was the crumbling remains of the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad. The town was Thorndike, and it sits...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Oct 19, 2019
My relationship with making art has been complicated, mainly because of my day job as a medical doctor in New York City. Years ago I maintained a painting studio, but gave up the medium when I moved into a small Manhattan apartment to pursue my training. But the...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Oct 13, 2019
In the heat of the southwest desert, among the towering buttes and mesas of Red Rock country, I discovered the thrill of watching paint dry. I’ve been doing watercolor for years and found the most difficult part is waiting for each wash to dry before proceeding to...
