Thank you Wendy for setting this up! As you can see I have zero experience in scanning but wanted to put a few photos up. This is Tom painting in the apartment we lived in on First Avenue between 62nd and 63rd in NYC (note the bars on the windows). The painting behind him is also by Tom. Tom painted on wood with aniline dye, which permeated the wood and let the grain (always carefully chosen by Tom) show through. His work was in several juried shows in NYC.
I'm so grateful for this photo. As much as I love Tom's paintings I never got to see him creating one as he was past that phase when I met him and hadn't yet returned to it. I love seeing his familiar intensity focused on creating something of beauty and meaning. I saw it often with athletic endeavors and also in his incredibly focused appreciation of beauty, but it's great to see it flowing out of him like this.
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