1982. Oil on canvas. 34" x 42," framed.

This is one of my oldest canvases and was finished in 1982 when I climbed into an old empty fountain in downtown Southampton on Long Island, NY. At this period of time, I was so excited about being an artist and had recently started painting outside (en plein air) like the artist heroes I had looked up to from the previous century. In 1982, I lived in East Northport on Long Island and worked in New York City and I had been painting local beaches in Northport or driving out farther to the Hamptons with all of my art supplies. On several occasions I went out to the Hamptons to paint outside.

When I found this interesting and beautiful lamp post in the middle of the Southampton Town Park, located on the other side of the street from the Parrish Art Museum, I had already come up with the idea of painting in this dot style. The Lamp Post is an original painting from my “Dot Paintings” series.