Seeing to Paint Before painter, script writer and movie director George Gallo could really paint in the tradition of the Pennsylvania Impressionists, he had to learn how see By Bob Waite
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t the age of 12 George Gallo’s mother gave him an oil painting set. As he experimented with his oil paints, he became enamored with landscape painting. “I don’t know why,” he admits. Then as a young man, George went to an art show in New York at the Grand Central Gallery, which at the time was owned by John Evans. This show not only firmed up his commitment to landscape painting, but he says, “…literally changed the direction of my life.” The show featured Pennsylvania Impressionists Walter Elmer Schofield, Daniel Garber and Edward Willis Redfield. George, recalling the
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Bucks County Home & Garden Guide 2021
Bernardsville Creek
