Michael in Spain. The Summer before last. Which would make it 2006.]]> This was a dinner in the Presidents Conference room after a talk by Michael Manfredi of Weiss/Manfredi Architects. See the next two entries.]]> This was a dinner in the Presidents Conference room after a talk by Michael Manfredi of Weiss/Manfredi Architects. See the previous entry and the following entry.]]> This was a dinner in the Presidents Conference room after a talk by Michael Manfredi of Weiss/Manfredi Architects. After dinner, they were waiting for Roy of Roy's Taxi to pick them up to take them back to the NYC. See the previous two entries.]]> Michael Mazur. -------- 11/02/1935 - 08/18/2009 -------- Obituary from the New York Times , August 29, 2009 ---------- Michael Mazur, a relentlessly inventive printmaker, painter and sculptor whose work encompassed social documentation, narrative and landscape while moving back and forth between figuration and abstraction, died on Aug. 18 in Cambridge, Mass. He was 73 and lived in Cambridge and Provincetown, Mass.nnThe cause was congestive heart failure, said Mary Ryan, his New York dealer.nnMr. Mazur first came to public notice in the early 1960s with two series of etchings and lithographs depicting inmates in a mental asylum in Howard, R.I. The series, “Closed Ward” and “Locked Ward,” rendered with the hand of a master draftsman, showed human beings in unbearable torment.nnThese lost souls, John Canaday wrote in The New York Times, “have the terrible anonymity of individuals who cannot be reached, whose ugly physical presence is only the symptom of a tragic spiritual isolation.”nnMr. Mazur’s restless artistic temperament led him to explore a variety of styles and media, shuttling between realism and abstraction. He produced narrative paintings like “Incident at Walden Pond,” a triptych from the late 1970s depicting the aftermath of a rape, and, beginning in the 1990s, abstract landscapes based on his own vascular system and on Chinese landscapes of the 12th to 15th centuries.nAfter seeing an exhibition of Degas monotypes at the Fogg Museum in 1968, he began exploring that medium, most notably in the monumental Wakeby landscapes of 1983, depicting Wakeby Lake on Cape Cod, and in a series of illustrations for Robert Pinsky’s translation of Dante’s “Inferno,” published in 1994.n“It’s hard to characterize him because he was always trying new things,” said Clifford S. Ackley, the chairman of prints, drawings and photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. “He did not fall into the trap of repeating himself the way so many older artists do. In the last week of his life he was doing pen-and-ink drawings of flowers and gardens.”nnMichael Burton Mazur grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and attended the Horace Mann School in the Bronx, where he belonged to an art club whose members included the future curator Henry Geldzahler and the future New Yorker cartoonist Ed Koren.nnWhile attending Amherst College he studied with the printmaker and sculptor Leonard Baskin, who was teaching at Smith College. After taking a year off to study in Italy, where his lifelong fascination with Dante began, he received a bachelor’s degree in 1957 and went on to earn bachelor’s and master’s degrees in fine art from the Yale School of Art and Architecture.nWhile at Yale he married Gail Beckwith, a poet known by her married name. She survives him, as do their two children, Dan, of Cambridge, and Kathe, of Los Angeles, and two grandchildren.nnMr. Mazur taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and Brandeis University from 1961 to 1975 while exhibiting frequently in New York and Boston.nnIn 2000 a traveling retrospective of his prints opened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The catalog, “The Prints of Michael Mazur With a Catalogue Raisonné, 1956-1999,” was published that year. “I’ll Tell What I Saw,” a selection of excerpts from Dante’s “Divine Comedy” illustrated by Mr. Mazur, is to be published by Sarabande Books in November.nnAlthough deadly serious as an artist, Mr. Mazur had a sly wit. In 1984 he wrote an article for the Op-Ed page of The New York Times proposing a W.P.A.-style project under which artists could decorate nuclear warheads, just as Renaissance artists embellished armor and weapons.nn“It is not hard to imagine the vivid colors, bas reliefs, even graffiti, that would make spectacles of beauty of those dull cones,” he wrote. In time, he suggested, the warheads would find their way into private collections and museums, thereby ending the possibility that they might be deployed.]]> We came down to NYC because Michael Mazur was having an opening for an exhibition. Cathy and I went to a few exhibitions on 57th Street. I had arranged for us to meet Michael and Gail at Pera restaurant on Madison and 41st Street for brunch. After that, Cathy and I went to see shows in Chelsea and then to Michaels opening at the Mary Ryan Gallery on 26st Street. See the following three entries.]]> At Michael's opening at the Mary Ryan Gallery, 26th Street, NYC. See the previous entry and the following two entries.]]> At Michael's opening at the Mary Ryan Gallery, NYC. See the previous two entries and the following entry.]]> At Michael Mazur's opening at the Mary Ryan Gallery. Mary wanted to introduce me to them because they saw Cathy's (Catherine Murphy) paintings at the Parrish and were interested in the Harry's Nipple painting. See the previous three entries.]]> Michael stopped by to visit.]]> We met for lunch in a restaurant in NYC.]]> 1983 Fall. Michael, Sandy, Peter, Mary Row. Fall-1983 (roll date image #s 11 12 13 14), L - R, Micael Sobel, Sandy Charlap, Peter Charlap, Mary Row]]> Micky and Gabrielle met us at our house, then we headed out to Miso in Hyde Park for dinner (see entry same date: Groups, Miso Japanese Restaurant.)]]> 2006-03-14 Microwave Man, we bought anew microwave and it didn't work correctly so a man came to fix it]]> 2007-10-10 , Mike. Mike came over with the Saab, that he had given a thorough going over and putting into good shape. He got done in time for us to take it to Brooklyn (see next entry)]]> 2007-09-27 Mike, , I brought the car we got from Gary Stephan and Suzanne Joelson into Sweedish Motors to check a few things. He drove me home.]]> tMike and Jamie came calling to proselytize for the Jehovah's Witness' belief system. We talked for a little while and each did our thing, they hadn't realized that Corey and Linette (see June 2nd 2018) had come calling about two weeks before. I got the feeling they try not to come to the same house quite that often. Mike suggested I might like to know about a big jubilee (if thats what he actually called it) that was coming up soon. I told him that I probably didn't need to know that. They took down the address of this website.]]> 2007-10-16 Mike Calenti, . He came over to play Ping Pong.]]> 2007-09-29 , Mike Calenti. Mike came over to play Ping Pong. He works with Ellen Jouret Epstein and I was talking to her about liking to play Ping Pong, so she got us together. It was the inaugural playing on my new table.]]> 2007-10-05 , Mike DiGiacomio. Mike, who runs Mike's Tree Service came to give us an estimate for some tree work. He was recommended to us by Dan Peck and Pat Wallace.]]> 2009-08-11 Mike DiGiacomio and guys, Mike (on the left ) and his crew took down a numer of dead trees for us.]]> 2008-08-14 Mike DiGiacomo, Friday. L-R, Mike DiGiacomio, Ed, ? . Mike and his guys from Mike's Tree Service came to work on some trees on the new property.]]> 2008-07-22 Mike DiGiacomo, . L-R ?, Mike Digiacomo, ?, They did work on some trees on the new property. Mike owns Mike's Tree Service.]]> 2008-05-30 Mike DiGiacomo, Friday, Mike of Mike's tree Service cam to do some tree work for us.]]> 2008-05-08 Mike DiGiacomo, L-R, Mike from Mike's tree service came to look at some work hat needed to be done.]]> 2008-04-07 Mike DiGiacomo, . Mike of Mike's Tree Service did some tree work for us.]]> 2009-06-24 Mike DiGiacomo, Wednesday. He came to look over some work we wanted to have done - A number or dead trees removed]]> Mike, who owns Mike's Tree Service came over to look at some tree work that remained to be done. When I showed him the two trees near the road and power lines, he thought I might call the power company to see if they would take care of those. I did and they are.]]> Mike of Mike's Tree Service came to give us an estimate for taking down a large sickly Maple tree and to look at the cable on the tree against the dutch barn.]]> 2015-5-22, Thursday, Mike DiGiacomo and crew. They came to take down a large ailing maple tree, sand a couple of other dead trees.]]> 2007-02-05 Mike from Bottini, , The heat went off. Mike came from Bottini Fuel Oil to fix it, which he did.]]> 2007-09-07 Mike from Bugbusters, S , Mike from Bugbusters came over to check the mouse traps.]]> 2007-06-15 Mike from Bugbusters, . A skunk got into the trap for the woodchuck. Mike came to take the skunk away.]]> He could have followed me home with a car that he repaired.]]> 2006-08-23 Mike from Sweedish Motors, , Mike brought me back in our car so he could take it back and repair it.]]> 2007-10-04 , Mike From Sweedish Motors. Mike brought back the new(though old) Volvo. Then I drove him back to Sweedish Motors.]]>