NEW YORK MEMORIES
8 X 10 - MIXED MEDIA ON RAG PAPER
MATTED AND FRAMED UNDER GLASS
$1400.00 SOLD
THIS IS ONE OF TWO PAINTINGS THAT WILL BE ON EXHIBIT AT THE CAHOON MUSEUM FROM FEBRUARY 2ND THROUGH MARCH 14TH.
IT IS AN EXHIBITION/ SALE BENEFITING ALZHEIMER'S SERVICES OF CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS.
Memory is a wonderful thing we all have, and cherish.
Memories make me think of good and bad, easy and hard, and boring or exciting
times. For this interesting show at the Cahoon Museum, I've focused on my years
growing up in the 1950's. In our family, my sisters and I spent the school year
in New York City and summers in Massachusetts. So, I painted two memories that
I treasure.
Growing up in the 1950's, my family lived in Manhattan on West 74th Street. On
school days, I would walk up to 89th Street along Columbus Avenue, past the
Museum of Natural History. Rain or shine or snow, I remember a happy safe
time. My Mom would give me 75 cents for lunch, or pack a brown bag lunch for
me. My favorite days were the 75 cent for lunch days, because I could walk from
school to Columbus Avenue, and choose pizza or a chicken sandwich at the Drug
Store, for lunch! Snow fall in N.Y.C. was a very fun thing too. My sisters and
I would walk to Central Park after school and slide down the glacial rocks on
cardboard "sleds".