Scenes of New York City: Virtual Talk with Artist Don Sexton

Artist Don Sexton will be discussing his paintings of iconic scenes of New York City, which are featured in the Harrison Library’s virtual exhibition of his works during the month of June.

Don lives in TriBeCa in New York City. His studio is in Goshen, Connecticut He has studied painting, drawing, printmaking, and etching at Wesleyan University and at the New School and the Stacy Studio Workshop in New York City and at the American Center for the Arts in Paris. His paintings have been exhibited in numerous shows in New York and Connecticut, have received several awards, and are in collections in the United States, Europe, and Australia. He is frequently engaged for commission projects.

His works are mixed media: ink and oil pastel on paper. He has developed a unique technique that begins by sketching the subject with black ink. Oil pastels provide color. Finally, water-based inks are applied and they bring out the rich and vivid hues in the work. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in mathematics and studio arts. He also has a Masters and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago. For fifty years he was a full-time faculty member at Columbia University’s Business School (and is now retired). He has traveled extensively in the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Latin America.

Register for Scenes of NY here.