Paintings of Walter Lynn Mosley Part 2

Walter Lynn Mosley was born in 1960 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and lived in Brooklyn, NY where he died on 5 November 2019. He received a BA in Art from San Jose State University and attended the Art Student's League. He studied under Bob Gerbracht, Maynard Stewart, and Frank Mason. He was a member of the Salmagundi Club, fellow of the American Artists Professional League, and a signature member of the New York Plein Air Painters. I like that every painting he did seems to have been personal and unique to him, and he explained the location, context, and intent of the work as he did for these paintings:

Image 1:
"Portrait of Jean Joseph Marie Carries", Mosley after Sargent, 14" x 11", oil on canvas.

"This was a demonstration for a student and has the quality of spontaneity of a work done in one sitting, all at once - "alla prima". It is a copy of a work by John Singer Sargent, his portrait of Jean Joseph Marie Carries. In the original Sargent signed his name along with the sitter's on the top of the canvas (with the back of the brush) and I likewise signed my copy with "Mosley a/Sargent" in the upper right."

Image 2:
"White flowers in antique bottle", Walter Mosley, 14" x 11", oil, 2007, oil on board.

I really like Walter's still lifes. This one seems jump off of the wall. I like that the bottle and flowers are slightly off center in the image. Like the colors, too. I happened to have a wide mission-style frame in forest green that was perfect for this painting. Walter said about this one:

"This is a still life painting done in my north light studio in 2007. It is a painting of white flowers (shaped like small lilies) in an old antique glass bottle (before the screw-top was invented) with a maroon or wine colored backdrop."

Image 3:
"Male nude w/ pole", Walter Mosley, 30" x 24", oil on canvas, 2009

"This was painted in January of this year (2009). It is a figure painting of a male nude with a pole in a dynamic pose. Painted at the Art Students League of New York, Studio 7, under north light (natural light)."

Image 4:
"Washington Square Park, New York", Walter Lynn Mosley, 12" x 18", oil on board, 2010

"This was painted recently, in March 2010. It was painted in Washington Square Park in downtown New York city (Manhattan) on a clear, sunny day in the afternoon looking in a southern direction (away from the arch.)"

This painting had some chips in it, so I sent it back to Walter and he filled them in, but also somewhat altered the painting, making some of the tree trunks more solid brown and maybe a few others things that did not jump out at me. The painting now looks somewhat different from the image of the early version. Both are very nice, though. Not sure which version I like best.