John Capowski

I grew up in Nyack, New York, where I attended Nyack High School and studied art with Joseph McDowell, and then attended Hamilton College with a New York Regents Scholarship and Charles Dana Scholar scholarship which provided tuition, room, and board expenses.  See above entries for my art studies and activities.

I grew up in Edward Hopper’s hometown of Nyack, New York in the Hudson Valley and was influenced by Hopper’s work (my high school art teacher mowed Hopper’s lawn) and that of the Hudson River School painters. School trips were often to the New York City museums, and I continued to regularly visit the museums when home from college and graduate school.

While I have painted and drawn throughout my life (My mother thought I should be an artist.), knowing the difficulty of a career in art, I earned a law degree and have made my career in public interest law and as a law professor.

In college I studied painting with James Penney and, while living in Baltimore, I studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art with Louise Hennessey, Philip Koch, Stan Friedman, and others. In recent years, I have focused on plein air landscapes in oil. Whether on our porch as a child or in the fields of Upstate New York, I painted en plein air long before I had any idea what that meant.

Hamilton College, B. A. (studied with James Penney), Maryland Institute College of Art, Certificate in Fine Arts, specialization in painting (studied with Phillip Koch, Stan Friedman, Loise Hennesey, and others), Art Association of Harrisburg (multiple courses with J. D. Wissler and others), winner of multiple prizes over the years at Art Assoc. of Harrisburg, juried into the Camp Hill Plein Air Festival, Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival, and the Brandywine Valley Plein Air Festival.  

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