Author Archives: Tim

“Poetry is not an element of nature, but a quality of the painter’s mind.” – Charles Caffin, 1903

Each year at about this time I realize how much I love autumn.   The cold nights and evening fires, the cool days and brilliant light, the falling color and the undressing of nature are all to be enjoyed.  But I … Continue reading →

It was an exciting summer in and around the Lawson house and the autumn has kept right on pace. The response for the new work in my exhibition, “Growth Rings” at Ten High Street, was even better than I had … Continue reading →

In October 1956 a nearly unknown thirteen year-old boy entered the famed Marshall Chess Club in Lower Manhattan to play the elegantly dressed and fiercely aggressive Donald Byrne, former U.S. Open Champion, in the seventh round of the Rosenwald Memorial … Continue reading →