‘Dagger Reader’

Pen and Pastel on Canson Paper · 15 × 11” · 1980

Part of the artist’s original training was to frequent libraries in his vicinity, especially the Rochester Rundl Library…he would sit ‘off center’ at a modest distance near people that were reading or sleeping, not trying to be very obvious and because the subject was ‘still’, as in a ‘live model’ was able to exercise his eye and hand to essensually capture private poses.