Seasoned landscape painter and geological aficionado Merrill Mahaffey sits down with our host Dr. Mark Sublette to revisit the defining moments of his career as a painter and as a professor of the arts. Merrill tells of uranium mines and working as a cowboy in 1950's Colorado, as well as the various characters he met through his skill with the brush including (but not limited to) Fritz Scholder, Greg Kondos, Eric Fischl, Wayne Thiebaud, and Elaine Horowitz. We hear about his Grand Canyon paintings and the ways in which Merrill orchestrates the cliffs and stone in his landscape paintings. All of this and more on this episode of the Art Dealer Diaries.
Seasoned landscape painter and geological aficionado Merrill Mahaffey sits down with our host Dr. Mark Sublette to revisit the defining moments of his career as a painter and as a professor of the arts. Merrill tells of uranium mines and working as a cowboy in 1950's Colorado, as well as the various characters he met through his skill with the brush including (but not limited to) Fritz Scholder, Greg Kondos, Eric Fischl, Wayne Thiebaud, and Elaine Horowitz. We hear about his Grand Canyon paintings and the ways in which Merrill orchestrates the cliffs and stone in his landscape paintings. All of this and more on this episode of the Art Dealer Diaries.