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Arts & Flowers Show
June 11th -12th
MJM Bath House Nantasket Beach
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Open Studio Tour #1
July 9-10th
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Open Studio Tour #2
August 20-21st
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Endless Summer Waterfront Festival
September 17th
Harry L. Greene II
Biography
Harry L. Greene, II. ”MOINE”, “Mo” was born May 24th, 1942 in Hannibal, Missouri. His father was a physician and his mother a nurse and amateur artist. Greene showed an early interest in art which was encouraged by his mother who drove him to St. Louis, Mo. (2 ½ hours away) for lessons and to visit galleries and art museums. As a teenager he won numerous art awards including the Helm Art Award and State Scholastic Art Awards. His principle teacher was Mary E. Wiehe, M.F.A.
Following High School his art work focused on biologic illustration and his first love, portraits, was confined to weekends and nights as he followed in his father’s footsteps becoming a physician and academic researcher and teacher. He spent thirty four years learning, practicing and teaching medicine, first as a cancer specialist (Sydney Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School), then in Primary Care and Preventive Medicine (Univ. of Massachusetts, Stanford University, University of Arizona and Harvard) and for the final seven years of his life in medicine as Chief Executive (staff) Officer of the Massachusetts Medical Society, a group of 17,000 doctors and the publisher of The New England Journal of Medicine. Greene has edited or co-edited 7 textbooks on medicine, two of which have been translated into multiple languages and one, under a grant from the Gates foundation, into Russian for use by primary care doctors in Russia. His most recent book, Decision Making in Medicine, 3rd Edition was published in Jan. 2010. One of his favorite aspects of editing and publishing books was the opportunity to interact with the illustrators and artists working on his books.
In 2001 he left medicine to pursue, full time, his passion for art and primarily his interest in portrait painting. He rekindled his latent skills through classes first at the Worcester Art Museum School where he found capable mentors in William Griffith (Watercolor), Kat O’Connor (oil and acrylic) Ellen Delainais (pastel) and William Lewis (printmaking).
In 2002 he moved to Tucson, Arizona to open his own studio and to pursue, full time, his passion for portraiture and contemporary realistic painting. He is an associate of “the Drawing Studio” where he studied with Andrew Rush and Catherine Nash (Print making and drawing) Ellen Fountain (watercolor) Brian Freeman (pastel and portraiture) and Mariana Carraras (portraiture). Phoenix offered the resources of the Scottsdale Artist’s School where he has studied with Charles Reed and Ted Nuttall (watercolor), other significant teachers include: Chris Saper (oil and Pastel Painting) Daniel E. Greene (oil portraits) and Linda Tracy Brandon (children’s portraits). In 2003 he began to study with William Whitaker, a modern master and portrait painter, who has been his principle teacher to the present.
In 2004 he began teaching at Desert Museum Art Institute in Tucson, where he teaches “Anatomy for Artists”, “Painting the Portraits of the Native Peoples of the Sonoran Desert Region” and “Anatomy for Artists” He has been the proctor for Open Studio and Figure Drawing classes.
Greene is currently a member and certified instructor for The Portrait Institute of America. He is a member of the Portrait Society of America and is a past President of the Southern Arizona Arts Guild and chair of the Critique Committee. He is a past Chairman of the Greater Oro Valley Arts Council’s Visual Arts Committee. His paintings are in homes, galleries, and museums throughout the United States. He is represented by Toscana Gallery in Tucson, The Artist’s Palette in Tubac, Az. And the Wyatt Earp Gallery in Tombstone,Az. Recently, summer 2010, he has begun exhibiting in the Sea Breeze Gallery in Hull, Ma.
In the summer of 2007 he opened a second studio near Boston, Massachusetts (Hull,Ma.) where he is in residence from April until September. Greene teaches privately at his studio in Oro Valley, Arizona and at the Toscana Art School and at the Desert Museum Art Institute in Tucson. He has been a graduate mentor for portraiture students for the Master of Fine Arts degree from The Art Academy, San Francisco, Ca. His courses include “Anatomy for Artists” at the Desert Museum Art Institute and Toscana and “Painting the Peoples of the Sonoran Desert” at The Desert Museum Art Institute.
To request information regarding commissioning an oil portrait or having a memorial painting done contact Linda Ahearn at Toscana Studio and Gallery 520-575-1445, The Sea Breeze Galllery and Flower Shop, in Hull, Ma. or 520-906-9224 www.toscanastudioandgallery.com or call Harry Greene Fine Arts 520-405-4305 or write Harry L. Greene, II, 1489 W. Bridalveil Pl., Oro Valley, Arizona 85737 or 1189 Nantasket Ave.,K-1, Hull, Ma. 02045
or e-mail
HarryGreeneFineArts@yahoo.com or www.harrygreenefinearts.com
From May through September, 1189 Nantasket Ave., Condo K-1, Hull, Ma. 02045
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