Paintings of Max Ferguson Urban Intimacy

Description: This book is a perfect, and beautiful coffee table fixture. A book filled with remarkable paintings of Max Ferguson. It is also a wonderful gift for a friend's coffee table, or, an artist looking for design ideas. It is actually perfect for anyone who appreciates Max Ferguson Urban paintings. “Moses is described in the Torah as the most modest man who ever lived. My father was the second most. He thought of himself, and wanted others to think of him, as simply ordinary. Perhaps that inspired me to often depict him as Everyman.” — Max FergusonBorn in 1912 and congenitally mild-mannered, Richard Ferguson enjoyed the simple pleasures of New York City: the Sunday paper, a pastrami on rye at Katz’s Delicatessen, boardwalk games in Coney Island with his wife. He was a father of four, and his youngest, Max, became an artist. The first time he painted his father, a lawyer, Max used him as a model for a 1982 paint-ing of a businessman on a subway platform. The success of that piece led to more sittings and more paintings, in oil or watercolor on wood. Inspired by Edward Hopper and 17th-century Dutch genre painting, many of the resulting images were real-life scenes — Richard visiting the post office, waiting for an elevator — while others, like that of father and son playing a game of pool, were painted from the imagination. Richard Ferguson was a devoted father, his son said, but he wasn’t demonstrative. “Perhaps,” he said, “painting him was one way of trying to elicit more love and approbation.” In “Painting My Father,” opening Monday at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum in Greenwich Village, Max Ferguson offers 30 years of these realist snapshots. The show, Mr. Ferguson’s 13th solo exhibition, captures his father as he was, and as he wished him to be — all against a backdrop of a fading midcentury New York. Five weeks after losing his wife of 58 years in 2005, Richard Ferguson died at 92. An opening reception on May 8 will commemorate what would have been his 100th birthday, and honor New York City’s everyman Old Masterly technique… The paintings straddle the past and present by documenting a city that is perpetually erasing itself... Wall Street Journal Quietly contemplative in the tradition of Hopper, but has a mysterious edge that is Ferguson's alone. Robb Report Eye-popping, exciting, serious, and challenging. The modern equivalent of a Vermeer. The Huffington Post Meticulously rendered and thoughtfully composed paintings... Artnews

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Location: Staten Island, New York

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