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“My paintings combine the sometimes nostalgic recollections of
drama inherent in seventeenth my days as a young tough, covers a
century Dutch painting with the myriad of common folk activities. The
brushwork and the economy of setting, usually my native Chester, is
the Impressionists. However, I look a beehive of creative stimulation or
to the jazz idiom more so than to a deteriorating ghetto, depending
other contemporary visual artists for on my state of mind. At the very
guidance and inspiration. I tend to least, hopefully, these vignettes of
measure the success of my pieces experience will help to provide insight
by how they stand up technically, into some African-American lifestyles
emotionally and innovatively to and serve as an inspiration to my
a Coltrane solo or whether I’ve students and others to continue
captured the spirit of the occasion, 273
the legacy of African-American
a' la Ellington. The subject matter, participation in the arts.”
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