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Graduating from the Vesper George School of Art in Boston, majoring in commercial art, he worked as staff artist at John Hancock home office in Boston. Ed also worked in advertising agencies in Hartford and West Hartford for a total of twenty-two years. Vice president and Art Director in both agencies, art school afforded him a solid academic and Fine Arts foundation. It was a smooth transition from drawing board and board rooms to the easel. Painting has become his second full-time career. His work is in homes and corporations, art shows and galleries, throughout New England. Galleries Art Rep A dedicated artist and art enthusiast, Ed joined Glastonbury Arts and was an active member of the Board of Directors for several years; President of the club five times. He has given many demonstrations, workshops, and talks for art leagues throughout New England. Now after many years working in the arts, studying the great artists, knowing their work, as a way to inform his own work; he has turned to learning about their personal lives. He has found that, in just about all cases, they were colorful, to say the least! |
| SELECT LIST OF AWARDS Purchase Award, Cape Elizabeth, ME Purchase Award, WCNH-Channel 6, Portland, ME West Hartford Art League, West Hartford, CT Lehland Howard Special Award, Mystic, CT Best in Show, Stone Harbor Art Show, Stone Harbor, NJ I have entered hundreds of shows, and won awards throughout the Northeast. ONE MAN SHOWS The Art Gallery at the Mill House, Chester, CT Picture This, Westport, CT Glastonbury Art Guild, Glastonbury, CT Images, Briarcliffe Manor, NY Galleries and Representation: The Gallery on Chase Hill, and The Maine Art Gallery, Kennebunkport, ME Sheldon Fine Art, Newport, RI David James Gallery, Glastonbury, CT Picture This, Westport, CT Connecticut Yankee International II, Darien, CT Images, Briarcliff, NY Carol St. John Interior Design, Essex Falls, NJ River Road Gallery, Wilton, CT Art 3, Manchester, NH Petrini Art Gallery, Avon, CT CORPORATE COLLECTIONS Aetna Insurance Scott Sawyer, Attorney Bayer Corporate Shaws Supermarket Corporation Chrysler Capital Society for Savings Bank Danher, Tedford, Lagnese, and Neal Stevens and Company Farmers and Mechanics Bank Touche and Ross Fleet Bank Travelers Insurance J. Crew United Technologies Corporation Kaiser Permanente WCNH-Channel 6, Portland ME Murtha Cullina Welles-Turner Memorial Library Welles Turner Memorial Library, Permanent Collection, Glastonbury CT PRIVATE COLLECTIONS My paintings are included in hundreds of private collections throughout the United States and Europe. |
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