I am an artist, author and filmmaker. I teach a painting course at Yale College entitled "Mastering the Art of Watercolor: Classic Techniques from Turner to Hopper") and have also taught at the Institute of Classical Architecture in New York City. I have published five books, including "The Stones of Yale," and "In the Founders' Footsteps: Landmarks of the American Revolution." My artwork is included in the collections of the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, among other collections. I have directed two documentary films on James Thurber (PBS) and Harold Ross and the history of the New Yorker magazine.
I enjoy playing the banjo and was a former DJ of a bluegrass program "Moonshine" for my college radio station. I relish Fellows dinners, lunches at the Dport Dining Hall, afternoon tea at the Elizabethan Club on campus, occasional pick up football on the Dport quad. I enjoy lively intellectual conversation with students in the office in Dport I share with Prof. Gitlin; and I have enjoyed presenting several College Teas in Dport on American humorists, as well as giving some weekend workshops on watercolor to Yale students during COVID. I always look forward to exhibiting my students' work every semester in the Dport art gallery.
