Category | Paintings
Bowl & Kerchief January 9, 2025Story: The rich red of the cloth covering the bench and texture of the kerchief, and the relief work on the Mexican terracotta bowl make this work. The painting is 20" x 16" oil on canvas.
Canyons January 9, 2025Story: This painting is an imaginary landscape by Spence Munsinger, with a road extending out into the distance, cacti and a lizard, hills ringed with red light. It is an exercise in wet-on-wet oils. …
Girl Reading January 9, 2025Story: This was a revelation in playing with painting surfaces and scratching into the paint. The painting is 30" x 40" acrylic on gallery-wrap canvas.
Guitar & Mandolin January 9, 2025Story: This painting began as an extrapolation of a drawing by Picasso of a mandolin distorted, and brought in the striped table and an orange moon through the night window. The painting is 30" …
Hotel Room January 9, 2025Story: The light passing through a window and across the carpet to touch the chair, the nude figure standing by the table in an anonymous room. The painting is 30" x 40" acrylic on …
Red Chair January 9, 2025Story: This painting was inspired by a photo in the Los Angeles Times of the roof of the Ambassador Hotel as it was being prepped for demolition. There was just this chair all by itself, with the …
Sale Pending January 9, 2025Story: A house waiting, empty, loved once and hoping to be loved again, to have life return. This house was in Franklin, MA, and it stayed on the market for a long while. The painting is 30" x …
Shadows across the Yards January 9, 2025Story: This was from a neighborhood I walked through in Franklin, MA, looking for contrasts and interesting landscape forms in houses and yards. This was late in the day. The painting is 48" x …
Sunset | Breeze through a Doorway January 9, 2025Story: This painting is a view through open French doors of palms and a sunset with curtains blowing in the dry hot breeze. The painting is 12" x 16" acrylic on 1-1/2" deep …
Sunset | Chair in the Sun January 9, 2025Story: This painting is of a mid-century modern ladderback chair I found as a set of five in a thrift store in Santa Barbara. The chair and the shadow it cast were what drew me to paint it. The …
Sunset | Sunset Douglas Preserve January 9, 2025Story: This painting is of the sunset from the back dirt path in the Douglas Preserve, which is reclaimed parkland overlooking Hendry’s Beach in Santa Barbara. The painting is 16" x …
Sunset | Douglas Preserve Coastline January 9, 2025Story: This paintings is the view from the top of the cliffs at the edge of the Douglas Preserve looking south from Hendry’s Beach. The painting is 12" x 16" acrylic on 1-1/2" …
Sunset | Trees Fellowship Road January 9, 2025Story: This paintings is of the silhouettes of trees at sunset from the patio of a house on the Mesa in Santa Barbara. The painting is 12" x 16" acrylic on 1-1/2" deep gallery-wrap …
Sunset | Winding Road January 9, 2025Story: This paintings is of the view of a winding road going notheast from Hendry’s Beach in Santa Barbara, viewed from the Douglas Preserve on the Mesa. The painting is 12" x 16" …
Sunset 1 | La Jolla January 9, 2025Story: This was painted in the dark depth of a cold New England basement, looking out through a window at ground level at snow on the boughs of trees and bushes, while imaging the soft golden light …
Sunset 10 | Along the Strand January 9, 2025Story: This pathway runs from North Harbor Drive just north of Redondo Beach, past the Hermosa Beach Pier, 2.1 miles up to the Manhattan Beach Pier, Going north there are some amazing houses to the …
Sunset 11 | Moonlight and Sunset January 9, 2025Story: The painting is of a moon rising as the sky darkens and the sun sets, with both present for just a moment in the same sky. The painting is 30" x 24" acrylic on 1-1/2" deep …
Sunset 12 | Moonlight and Sunset January 9, 2025Story: There’s a tug in me toward the sleepy beach communities I grew up in, with nice but not extravagant homes in walking distance of the sand and a limitless horizon. Surfboards leaned …
Sunset 13 | Palms January 9, 2025Story: These trees are everywhere in Los Angeles. There are often lift trucks in the streets taking workmen up 50 to 80 feet to trim the fronds that die and fall down against the trunk, before they …
Sunset 14 | Umbrella January 9, 2025Story: I have a memory as a child of falling asleep on a towel on the sand with an umbrella shading me. I woe up and the sunset was in full color, textured and changed by seeing it through the fabric …
Sunset 15 | Laughing Buddha January 9, 2025Story: The painting is from a scene I photographed on a walk up and over the hill to where 13th Street starts descending to the shore. This enormous laughing buddha statue was by an entry to a home, …
Sunset 16 | House Reflected January 9, 2025Story: This was inspired by a photograph of the sunset and coastline in Palos Verdes, which also caught a reflection of the colors in the windows of a house on the hill. The painting is 30" x …
Sunset 17 | Palos Verdes January 9, 2025Story: This was the view I had when my daughter Ash and I walked along a neighborhood road high above the coastline. The painting is 30" x 24" acrylic on 1-1/2" deep gallery-wrap …
Sunset 18 | Pier January 9, 2025Story: This is from a photograph I shot down the pier directly into the sun at sunset. The silhouette of the building at the end and the people walking out to watch the last of the sun, and the …
Sunset 19 | 8th Street Lifeguard Tower January 9, 2025Story: This painting is of the lifeguard tower at 8th Street. These towers are everywhere up and down the coast of California, and I used to sit on their decks in off season, watching the waves and …
Sunset 2 | 9th Street, Del Mar January 9, 2025Story: This was painted from my memory of the 9th Street road as it ended at the beach. I walked by this road on the way to elementary school. The painting is 30" x 24" acrylic on …
Sunset 20 | Street through the Window January 9, 2025Story: This painting is of the view through the window onto Manhattan Beach Blvd from the Rock N Fish restaurant at sunset. The painting is 24" x 30" acrylic on 1-1/2" deep …
Sunset 21 | House w/Fish & Lizard January 9, 2025Story: This paintings is of a house and gate and brick walkway, but even more a painting of the statuary placed in front, a fish surfacing from the gravel in the yard and a ceramic lizard scaling the …
Sunset 22 | Two Boards by the Path January 9, 2025Story: This painting is of two surfboards left by a sandy path leading to the beach at Hendry’s Beach in Santa Barbara. The painting is 24" x 30" acrylic on 1-1/2" deep …
Sunset 23 | Off State Street January 9, 2025Story: This painting is of a doorway on a side street off State Street in Santa Barbara, The light and the shadows of the palm tree and on the walls contrasted with the brightness of the …
Sunset 24 | Butterfly Beach January 9, 2025Story: This painting is of Butterfly Beach in Santa Barbara. This was last light. The painting is 30" x 24" acrylic on 1-1/2" deep gallery-wrap canvas.
Sunset 25 | 7th Street Access January 9, 2025Story: This painting is of the access road at 7th Street in Manhattan Beach at last light. The painting is 30" x 24" acrylic on 1-1/2" deep gallery-wrap canvas.
Sunset 3 | 4th Street, Del Mar January 9, 2025Story: 4th Street was also named “Del Mar Height Blvd.” as it climbed away from Pacific Coast Highway and over the hill into vacant land beyond. At least it started out vacant. Over the …
Sunset 4 | Patio, Solana Beach January 9, 2025Story: Solana Beach was the next town up the coast from Del Mar. Just north of Del Mar the Pacific Coast Highway (Highway 101) moved right and away from the sandstone cliffs on the coast. This left …
Sunset 5 | Off PCH January 9, 2025Story: This came from memopries of the sound of the beach. The water washing up, the final break of the wave, then the rapid hiss of the water racing up the sand , lowing, stopping, receding back. …
Sunset 6 | Esplanade January 9, 2025Story: This sky came together at the very end. I fought with it, going back and forth, over and over until the colors suddenly popped. This is one of those paintings where the final effects seem to …
Sunset 7 | North County, San Diego January 9, 2025Story: The paintings is of a dirt path winding through beach grass next to a barbed-wire fence. This was a path off a dirt parking lot just south of La Jolla, off a gravel road, a street not even …
Sunset 8 | Venice, CA January 9, 2025Story: The painting is of wind-blown palm trees and the buildings, residences and shops, just off the beach walk in Venice, CA. The painting is 30" x 24" acrylic on 1-1/2" deep …
Sunset 9 | Manhattan Beach January 9, 2025Story: This house is one of the most spectacular in Manhattan Beach. The green glass, front patio on the beachwalk, the ocean out beyond your front balcony as the sun sets. The painting is 24" x …
Taxi January 9, 2025Story: This painting was from a memory of a scene from North by Northwest where Cary Grant’s character Roger Thornhill leans back into a taxi to speak to his secretary. The painting is 36" …
Three Pots January 9, 2025Story: Three pots on black draped cloth. I loved the textures in the relief pottery contrasted with the basket weaving and the wrapped handle. The painting is 30" x 24" acrylic on …
Two Guitars January 9, 2025Story: This followed the Guitar & Mandolin painting, adding guitars and strings arriving out of nowhere. The painting is 30" x 40" acrylic on gallery-wrap canvas.
Weathervane January 9, 2025Story: This painting is of a brass goose taking flight weathervane that perched on a garage in Franklin, MA. The painting is 30" x 40" acrylic on gallery-wrap canvas.
Woman, 1934 January 9, 2025Story: This painting is an exercise in stripes, blue colors and multiple-viewpoint faces. The painting is 30" x 40" acrylic on gallery-wrap canvas.