Gerald P. York
Portrait Painting & Sculpture

Statement

My mission is to capture and create beauty through visual representational art that focuses primarily on the portrait of the human person. I work in all media, but I have focused on marble, bronze, oil paint, and charcoal. I accept commissions in all media.

I work in a tradition that comes down to us from Michelangelo, Bernini, Velazquez, Sorolla, Zorn, Degas, Sargent, St. Gaudens and others.

My primary interest is the subject-viewer rapport in a work of art.  Thus we see this rapport in Raphael's Baldesare Castiglione or in Velazquez's portrait of Juan Pareja.

In my work I hope that you can see this quality in my charcoal of the little girl or in the oil of Kerry Robinson. I aspire to achieve this rapport in all of my work.

Gerald P. York

Background

Gerald P. York graduated from Yale College. His clients include Procter & Gamble and Becton, Dickinson & Company.  As the result of a competition Mr. York was selected by the chairman of Sotheby's to paint the official university portrait of the president of Yale in 1995.  Mr. York has won numerous awards for his work.

Photo: Mr. York with two portraits in his studio.

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