Poet & Patron

72 Miniatures by Dale Wittig 
at Sebastian Brecht OCD Chocolates 
63 E4th St (btwn Bowery & 2nd Ave)

This is the ware wherein my wealth  consists;
And thus methinks should men of judgment frame
Their means of traffic from the vulgar trade,
And, as their wealth increaseth, so inclose
Infinite riches in a little room. 
(the Jew of Malta, I.i.33-7, Christopher Marlowe)

ABASEMENT 24

at 
Max Fish 
120 Orchard St NYC 
Monday 10 April 2017

I never learned the name of the Japanese noise jazz improv band that Gregg Woolard and I watched and listened to pretty intently for close to an hour, but they were awe inspiring and sexy as hell.  Gregg’s decorative geometric mural served as an excellent backdrop for their activities.  The hand printed lino cut announcement he’s holding in the last picture down just above is unrelated to the musical event.

Eight Miniatures from the series Poet & Patron

Dale Wittig 
acrylic& pencil on gessoed card
Harlem NYC 
& Craftsbury VT 
April 2017

1.Max Schumann  

2.Dale Wittig  

3.Karen Lank  

4.Michael Dennison  

5.John Fletcher  

6.Oliver Cromwell  

7.Karen Lank  

8.Maria Schumann

Eight Miniatures from Poet & Patron

Dale Wittig 
April 2017 
Harlem & Lower East Side NYC 
acrylic & pencil on gessoed card 
exhibited at 
Sebastian Brecht OCD Chocolate 
63 E4th St

 

1.Don Juan  

 

2.Ulli Rimkus  

 

3.Faith Wittig  

 

4.Juan Carlos Lamouth  

 

5.Susie Dennison  

 

6.Elizabeth Tudor  

 

7.Susie Dennison  

 

8.Courtney Love

Fayum Mummy Portraits & Funerary Shroud Portrait

Fayum Mummy Portraits
encaustic (beeswax & pigment) on wood panel 
Funerary Shroud Portrait 
tempera on linen 
Fayum & Antinoopolis Egypt 
circa AD 50 - 300

The largest surviving group of classical era panel paintings come from the Greek colonies of Egypt from the Roman era, the so called Fayum Portraits.  The painters employed both the hot and cold methods of encaustic painting, where beeswax, either molten or emulsified, is used as the primary binder for the pigment.  The paintings above all belong to the collection of the Metropolitan Museum on 5th Avenue in NYC.  The last one down is a life size portrait painted in tempera on linen.

Classical Roman Fresco Wall Murals

from 
Villa of P Fannius Synistor  at Boscoreale 
& Imperial Villa  at Boscotrecase
Pompeii ca. 50–40 BC
Metropolitan Museum 5th Avenue
Manhattan 
 

1.seated woman playing a kithara 
  

2.man and woman seated side by side

3.woman holding a shield 

4.covered vase on pedestal 
   

5.sacrificial bull’s head (boukranion) with garland, wicker basket (cista mystica) and satyr mask

6.Perseus and Andromeda 

7.Polyphemus and Galatea