About Us

Education

• The Art Students’ League of NY- Classical portraiture, still life and landscape painting in oil with Frank Mason, Robert Philipp, etc.
• Robert Brackman’s Summer School in Madison Connecticut with William Schulz, 1980
• Longwood Gardens – Studies in ornamental horticulture and floral design, while working as horticulturist on the estate of Ambassador Walter Annenberg – Philadelphia, PA.
• Harpsichord – Temple Painter of Philadelphia    Piano – Eleanor Sokoloff –  Philadelphia, PA,  Denise Kahn – NYC​

 Exhibitions

• Compendium; Ex Libris @ Banana Factory – “The Guilty Man/Stanley Kunitz”  portrait 1/15 – 3/6/22
• Oil Portrait Live Demo @ Berks Art Alliance/Yocum Institute – “Elaine” portrait model,   11/9/21
• Compendium; Chroma @ Banana Factory Juried Show – Second Place Award – “Magnolia Pod Patterns”  oil/canvas, 4/3 – 5/7/20
• Galanthus Gala Display “Cherubs and Cattails” @ Friends Meetinghouse, Downingtown, PA 3/7/20
• Live portrait demonstration for Parkland Art League 1/14/20  Trexlertown, PA
• Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center “getting off” erotic male drawing show 1/2 – 2/21, 2020
• Bethlehem City Hall Rotunda “Artist Journey Retrospective, from 1979”  one man show 8/18 – 9/23, 2019
• Newport Flower Show “Flowers at Rosecliff”  oil on canvas 6/21 – 23,  2019
• “Tribute to H.D.”  artistic display table of snowdrops on a theme of poet Hilda Doolittle’s poem “One Flower” @ Galanthus Gala – Friends Meeting House Downingtown, PA  3/9, 2019
• “David Nitschmann”  portrait of founder of Bethlehem for Nitschmann Public Middle School, dedication September 17, 2018
• Members’ Juried Exhibition – Salmagundi Club, NYC “Cupid Remembered” oil on canvas 4/30 – 5/18
• Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce – Bucks Fever Juried Show “Black & White” “Carey” charcoal drawing   4/26 – 5/11, 2018 Bridges at Warwick – Jamison, PA
• “Baroque Interpretations of Life”  – a one man show @ RE:find Gallery Allentown, PA  4/19 – 5/31/18
• NextFab “Spring” and “Jonathan” pastels from DCAD drawing marathon 4/6 – 4/30/18
• Naked in New Hope “Steve, Showering” oil on canvas – juried show, 9 – 10/17  Sidetracks Art Gallery
• Central Bucks County Chamber of Commerce Juried Show “Who Am I?” self portrait –  “Gardening in the Age of Zika” April – May, 2017 at the Wellness Center of Warrington, PA
• Rago Auction –  live art auction benefitting Lambertville, NJ Historical Society, February 11, 2017
•  Longwood Gardens, Bulb-A-Mania  lecture – “Bulbs In Art” with exhibition of my paintings of how bulbs  have influenced my work as an  artist.  April 30, 2016
•  Delaware College of Art and Design Gallery show – a pastel and an oil portrait of Brian – April, 2016
• Truro Council on Aging – one man gallery show of many Cape Cod themed paintings – January, 2015
• 36th Annual Naples International Art Fair – Naples,  FL  juried – February, 2015
• Sanibel Art Festival – Sanibel Island, FL   February, 2015
• Provincetown Art Association and Museum 12 x 12 show – summer 2015
• Schoolhouse Gallery Show of portraits in the one room schoolhouse where my grandmother attended in the 1920s Albrightsville, PA  –   October 24, 2015
• 400th Anniversary of the Dutch Discovery of Manhattan – “Dutch Influence in Horticulture” – 3’ x 6’ panel  in the panorama – Maritime MuZEEum – Vlissingen, NL – 2010
• Artsbridge  at Riverun Gallery: Honorable Mention – “Fulper Pot with Orchids” – 2008
• Phillips Mill Juried Show: New Hope, PA –  “Pottery and Pears” – 2007
• Non-Members Juried Show, Salmagundi Club, NY – 2007  “Rob Conti with Peter”  Forbes Magazine Award
• Art Students’ League Juried Members Show- Oct. 2004, “Rob Conti with Peter” was chosen by jurors David Findlay, Maxwell Davidson II and Fran Bradford.
• Group show – Lyme Art Association – Old Lyme, CT 2004
• Canter Fitzgerald Gallery group show, Haverford College, PA  2003
• Various shows with the Bethlehem Palette Club at the Banana Factory including the Bethlehem Steel paint-out.
• The International Orchid Show of Greater NY at the Wintergarden (now Brookfield Place)  Wall St. 1991
• Southern Allegheny’s Museum of Art; “Nature Morte- The Museum Considers the Still Life” – “Still Life with Bagels” was featured as front piece – 1986.

Collections 

• City of Bethlehem, PA Town Hall Collection – “Progression of Steel Stacks”  oil painting 
• Nitschmann Middle School – Bethlehem, PA – portrait of founder David Nitschmann
• The Estate of Annie Fischer – Budapest, Hungary / Floral
• Northampton County Courthouse, PA – Master Harry Blair / Portrait
• Irv Davis – Clayton-Davis Inc. St. Louis, MO / Portrait + Floral
• St. Clement’s Episcopal Church –  Philadelphia, PA / Portrait of Fr. Peter Laister
• Leslie Lohman Gay Art Foundation, NYC – permanent collection / Portrait of Carlos

Awards

• Award of Merit “The Prodigal Son” Object Project 2009 – Salmagundi Club
• Artsbridge Juried Show2008 – “Fulper Pot with Orchids” Honorable Mention
• Forbes Magazine Award Annual Non-Members’ Show 2007  – Salmagundi Club
• National Capitol Orchid Society: Best in Show “The Orchid Breakfast” 1992
• American Orchid Society Bronze Trophy for Best Exhibition design, 1991
• AOS Certificate of Botanical Recognition for Dendrobium keithii “Suzette”, first time  species recognition for which the artist named the plant after his late cousin

Speaking Engagements

• National Arboretum, Washington, DC – topic: “Inwood, a Year in Bloom”. One year of vignettes from the late, Honorable Ambassador Walter Annenberg’s Estate on the Main Line – Philadelphia, PA
• Garden Clubs; National Capitol Area Federated Garden Clubs at the National Arboretum, Fairfax County G. C. VA, Charles County G. C. MD,  Bethlehem and Allentown G. C. PA

Etc.

• Piano recital: Lang Concert Hall – Swarthmore, PA – Fall Celebration – annually, since 11/06

Affiliations

• Member:  Salmagundi Club of NY, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Garden Writers Association, Truro School For The Arts At Castle Hill, Artsbridge, NJ
• Portrait Society of America – Pennsylvania State Ambassador 2004 – 2008