The art works of a Renaissance man are on display at the West Windsor Library through Friday, October 31. The unique exhibit features Maurie White’s three-dimensional paintings of Van Gogh incorporating wood, fabric, and paint.##M:[more]##
White, 88, a resident of Bear Creek Assisted Living in West Windsor, paints, carves, writes poetry, runs a music appreciation class, and participates in book clubs. He has also written his memoirs focusing on his life and experiences during World War II and being on the original design team of the famed P-47 Thunderbolt fighter. The publication is in the Library of Congress.
White, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, was a vice president at Bantam Books. “He has been an artist, in one form or the other, all his life,” says his son Robert, the executive director of Oakwood School in Tinton Falls. “Many more of these reproductions hang on the walls of his four children.” At one point his father reconstructed American furniture as a hobby.
With interests in music, art, Early Americana history, and a Civil War buff, White runs groups at Bear Creek focusing on book reviews, music appreciation, vintage movies, and Jewish studies.
“Since my mother went into the Pavilions at Forestal due to Alzheimer’s disease, my father has consoled himself by delving into this project,” says Robert White. His parents have been married for 65 years.
Approximately 10 of the pieces displayed were created in White’s private art studio at Bear Creek, where he has lived for the past four years. “Mr. White is planning on recreating another painter’s work, though he is letting us sit tight and wait until he unveils his version in the near future,” says Shain Levy-Szasz, from Bear Creek.
Art Exhibit, West Windsor Library, 333 North Post Road, 609-799-0462. Three-dimensional wood on wood paintings by Maurie White. Through October 31.
