Doctor Taylor

Courtesy Jerry Magnin, Beverly Hills Polo/Ralph Lauren.

This portrait painting hangs in the stairway of the Beverly Hills Ralph Lauren/Polo store. Polo's decorators, with whom I had worked before, asked me if I could paint something that would be mistaken for an Edwardian era ancestor portrait. Since one of my personal heroes is John Singer Sargent, I didn’t need much prodding to go that direction!

The resultant portrait was so effective in its ruse, that it had a hilarious article written about it in Buzz magazine. This painting probably would have generated a lot more work for me if more people could have imagined that the artist was still alive! A few hardy souls found me, but most assumed the two-digit date referred to the nineteenth century, not the twentieth.

Dr. Frank Taylor, a radiologist MD friend of mine with a gorgeous neoclassical profile, posed for me. This painting is so large that it had to be painted in my old garage so it rise up between the rafters when I needed to work on the bottom. The top and middle of the painting was accomplished with me on a scaffold. On the Fourth of July, I painted with my shell-shocked, quaking dog with me up on the scaffolding! Toto just hated those fireworks! I was oh, so glad to have that painting done and move back into my comfy studio in the house. Visitors to the Beverly Hills Ralph Lauren Polo store will find this portrait in the large curving stairway in the center of the store. I also have quite a number of sporting paintings in the New York Polo Store, and one of them, a still life of horse tack and silk ties, hanging in, you guessed it, the tie department, made Architectural Digest!

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