Harry’s career, life and work spans a century. He was born in Ostroweic, Poland at the turn of the century and painted until his death in 2002 in Chicago, Illinois.

Seek the subject through the use of color

“Every great painting is a product of the inner depths of the artist, expressed in visual form on the canvas, The subject matter, a tree, a portrait, a house, or a completely non-objective canvas is not so important as whether the artist succeeds in conveying his own feelings about it. The subject matter, for me, only serves me as a starting point. When I first approach a canvas, I often have no previously conceived idea of what the finished canvas might be. I neither make preliminary sketches, nor do I draw an outline; immediately, I begin to seek the subject through the use of color. As I work, new forms present themselves -- hitherto unseen possibilities appear. Thus, what happens on the canvas during the process of painting is a continual surprise as well as a continual challenge to me. While the canvas is in process, there is a never-ending search for new color relationships and new techniques. Thus, each canvas yields to the artist a different experience. I do not, however, live in a hermetically sealed vacuum and attempt to create merely pleasing form from the depths of my unconscious. While I have the strongest connection with reality, I do not copy nature verbatim, but interpret it in the light of my own feelings about it."