The Next Best Thing

Francis Cunningham's Masters Exhibit at the Century Association - Video

If you are not able to get to New York City by November 20, to see the Exhibition in person fear not, we have for you the next best thing. 

Please enjoy this video presentation of the Exhibit. 

Click to Virtually Visit the Exhibition

Portraits: Fay

Portraits: Backgrounds

The father of Dick's current model, Stephanie, remarked on the variety of backgrounds for Dick's figures,

which often contrast the realism of the bodies. This remark made Dick think about the various abstract

and figurative backgrounds he's used. The following video shows examples of those backgrounds,

how they came to be used and how they work with the figure.

Portraits: Tom Johnson

Today we're posting another portrait. This time it's a model, Tom Johnson, whom Dick painted in four major works. The video tells the story of Tom, as Dick knew him, from before they met until Tom's death.

Portraits: Rev. W. B. Wright

Before the Christmas/New Year break Dick and I rushed and filmed as much as we could for our video series on Dick's models. We had a long holiday break ahead of us, so we worked on editing yet another video. We accomplished it and the result is "Portraits: Rev. W. B. Wright" We had mentioned and linked W.B.Wright video in our most recent e-mail, but here it comes to the blog.

Portraits: Floyd Woodbeck

Our second video, Portraits: Floyd Woodbeck, in the series about the models Dick has worked with and painted over the years, is ready. Floyd was Dick's neighbor, friend and he helped maintaining the Berkshires summer house, studio barn and land. If you want to watch or re-watch other portraits(one other at the moment), here is the playlist for the series on YouTube.

Portraits: Mimi Scherb

The video introduction to our new video project, Portraits, received a bit more feedback from you than our previews videos. Thank you. We tried to cover more in each of the previews video and they took longer to produce and put up on YouTube. So, this time we're trying something different, shorter, rougher- more frequent, more focused videos. This time the subject is the models Dick has worked with over the years. First, Mimi with whom Dick worked from early in his career and whom he painted many times.



Your thoughts and reactions are as always welcome. Comment here, email or even snail mail. Watch for more videos here and on our YouTube Portraits playlist and Dick's YouTube channel.