Thursday, July 23, 2009

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Welcome to this blog/website I am  creating for my dad, Mayo Sorgman.  When he died in 2006, my brother and I inherited a large number of paintings and a legacy of creativity.  I'd like to share some of the paintings, and establish a web presence for Dad.  His work is too beautiful and important (to me, at least) to fade into obscurity.  

The painting pictured here, a 30 x 40" acrylic, dates from one of Dad's most productive periods, and since he was painting well into his 80's, there were several distinct periods.  Dad never dated his work, but I know that this one was completed after he and Mom moved to Harwich, on Cape Cod, in 1997.   At this time Dad produced abstracted Cape landscapes that poetically convey the shimmering maritime light.  I've got numbers of these beauties rolled up in storage.  They have never been shown.  It is my delight to begin to post these works in hopes of sharing them with you.