In memoriam: Jerrold S. Carton

Oh, boy! Jerrold is gone!

He was immensely gifted as a painter. He left marvelous paintings, (apparently) simple ones, true ones, some of the best realist paintings I know. No artsy-fartsy conceptual, avangardistic, abyssal etc. art. Just beautiful paintings, painted with talent and love. The paintings which usually get snobed by the “critics” and loved by the models and buyers. And, for all I know, my intuition tells me he was a good man…

I did not knew him personally… I met him on Sito (http://tinyurl.com/cxbplo) and for years we look up reciprocally the new paintings each of us posted.  We echanged ideas and appreciations and I just felt we were brothers in that Brotherhoo/Sisterhood of Art thing, Robert Henri speak of. But sometimes we do not need words to comprehend each other…

He was still young, of course. And now he’s wandering out there, in the beautiful landscapes he so well painted (Van Gogh would have liked, no doubt, some of his direct, SIMPLE (simple being the most complicated thing to get, a master thing)  or in the pure air around his portraits (some of the most wonderful being those of his daughters and wife). Every time I will miss him, I’ll go to SITO and look some more …

Here there are, some I like most:

So long, Jerrold, brother! We’ll meet again (tomorrow or in 20 years, who knows?) out there…

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I hope Jeanne Carton will not be angry because I did not have (and didn’t ask) for copyright permission to publish these…