Oak Grove

Oak Grove, Riverside Park oil on wood, 12″ x 9″, 2021

Chapman Hall

Chapman Hall and Sandburg Dorms oil on wood, 12″ x 16″, 2020 Painted from within the UWM Golda Meir Library, I was drawn to the contrast between the collegiate gothic/Tudor style Chapman Hall contrasted with the Brutalist style of the Sandburg dorms that surround the earlier campus building. Painting was completed just prior to the […]

Cawker Estate Building

Cawker Estate Building oil on wood, 8″ x 10″, 2016 Built in 1895, the Cawker Estate Building was a wholesale dry goods and notions firm. In 1994 the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design renovated the upper floors for student housing. The William F. Eisner Advertising & Design Museum occupied the lower floors until the […]

Pompeii Square

Pompeii Square oil on wood, 8″ x 10″, 2018 In the 1960s, highway construction and “urban renewal” displaced the Italian community in the Third Ward. The neighborhood’s landmark Blessed Virgin of Pompeii Catholic Church was demolished to make way for new development. Gerrit V. Sinclair made many paintings in the Third Ward before the freeway […]

View from the Green Gallery

View from the Green Gallery oil on wood, 9″ x 12″, 2018 In the summer, I made a painting of the Green Gallery from across the street. I made this painting inside the Green Gallery in the winter looking out across the street to where I made my previous painting.

View from Paul’s Porch Looking East

View from Paul’s Porch Looking East oil on wood, 8″ x 10″, 2020

Milwaukee River at Humboldt Bridge

Milwaukee River at Humboldt Bridge oil on wood, 12″ x 14″, 2017 Gerrit Sinclair made a painting of the Milwaukee River next to the Humboldt bridge that is in the collection of MOWA. There are a few things around this location that are unchanged from his time.

View from Kadish Park

View from Kadish Park oil on wood, 10″ x 10″, 2017 This is the first painting in a series I’m working on inspired by the paintings of Milwaukee artist, Gerrit V. Sinclair, an early to mid-twentieth century painter whose work was inspired by his community and surroundings. I am visiting the same locations that he […]

Chicago Street

Chicago Street oil on wood panel, 9″ x 12″, 2017 On October 28, 1892 one of Milwaukee’s largest fires destroyed buildings in the Third Ward. Almost every structure on Chicago Street was reduced to rubble or ashes. After the fire, warehouses and other business buildings were built to replace many of the homes that were […]

Milwaukee City Hall

Milwaukee City Hall oil on wood panel, 24 1/4″ x 16 1/4″, 2016