Sanford Ross A Life in Art  1907-1954

Sanford Ross Plans One-Man Art Exhibit

South Pomfret 

 

 

Sanford Ross will display 25 oil paintings and watercolors at his one-man exhibition at the Southern Vermont Art Ctr., Manchester, VT opening Saturday, July 25. The galleries are open to the public daily from 10 AM to 6 PM.  Ross, whose work has already been seen at the art center this season during the instructors show, has had to discontinue his art instruction because he has become so busy with his work of painting children's portraits the points out that a metamorphosis in his personal life has correspondingly revolutionized his painting.  At the age of 40 he married for the first time in his life thereby acquiring three young stepdaughters and a new child of his own, a son. This sudden onrush of a family into the life of a solitary painter who formerly had not even had a speaking acquaintance, so he says, with any children served as a sort of challenge to Ross.  He discovered to his amazement that not only were children upon sufficient acquaintance very likable creatures but that also they were extremely paintable.  Many portrait commissions have resulted Ross is still somewhat startled at the change in his life.  I'm not of a world-roving bachelor into a settled Vermont family man.  As he puts it, "instead of pursuing 600 pound marlin in New Zealand I'm after a 6 inch trout in Windsor County and hunting lions in Kenya has given way to grouse hunting at home." Ross still shows his splendid watercolors done in Africa but his current paintings are those of still Vermont landscapes and lively Vermont children.  He has had one man shows Princeton University the MacBeth Gallery, New York and others is exhibited at the Metropolitan and Whitney museums and is represented by pictures and three media at the Dartmouth College Museum Carpenter Hall. He considers the School of Paris as represented by Durain, Vlaminck and Segonzac is the most significant today's artworld. The Sanford Ross show will continue at the art center to August 16.

 

- Rutland Herald, 1953.