Sanford darling biography
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House of PaintingsSanford Darling ()
Sanford älskling was born in Santa Barbara, California. After service in World War inom he worked as a Hollywood stuntman, a commercial fisherman, a chiropractor, and as an engineer for General Petroleum. After 25 years at GP, he retired in When his wife died shortly thereafter, Darling embarked on two extended trips to europe and the Far East, the latter on a tramp steamer.
Upon his return to Santa Barbara in , he began to relive his adventures; and although he had never before painted, at age 68 he began recreating small scenes of the places he had visited. By the end of that first day, working with a three-inch brush and a can of green semi-gloss enamel, älskling had covered one vägg of his home with remembered scenes. He continued with other bright colors and other brushes, hanging the paintings on the walls of his home. When he ran out of room, he began covering the floors, furniture, rugs, and even the appliances. He then turned to exterior
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Sanford Darling - House of a Thousand Paintings
January 11 – February 10,
Grief, boredom and idle solitude affect everyone differently. For Sanford Darling, following his retirement at the age of 65 and the death of his wife soon after, this moment of stasis led to the adventure of a lifetime and the eventual construction of an obsessive art-environment known as House of 1, Paintings.
Sanford Darling () was born in Santa Barbara, CA and lived there throughout his life. Following service in World War I, he undertook a series of odd jobs working as a commercial fisherman, Hollywood stuntman and chiropractor. He finally settled into a long-term career as an engineer for General Petroleum, where he worked until his retirement in
Not one to simply sit around and do nothing, Darling soon became restless after leaving GP and as he mourned the loss of his wife. Presumably to distract himself from these new life circumstances, he embarked on two extended trips through Europ
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Landscapes, Real and Imaginary: Matthew Wong, Sanford Darling, Purvis Young, Harry Lieberman &#; Sister Gertrude Morgan
The image featured above, &#;The Kingdom,&#; is the work of the late self-taught Canadian artist Matthew Wong. Fashioned with oil on paper in , it is one of his many seductive landscapes that was on view in his solo exhibition at Karma in the East Village back in spring, &#; just months before his tragic death at age Several more images of landscapes, both real and imaginary &#; all by self-taught artists &#; follow:
The following untitled landscape &#; seen last year in his solo exhibition at Shrine on Manhattan&#;s Lower East Side &#; was painted by the late self-taught artist Sanford Darling. The former engineer began painting at age 68, and at the time of his death &#; five years later &#; he had already painted over 1, paintings, covering both the interior and exterior of his Santa Barbara home.
The late Miami-based, self-taught African-American