He at times lived homeless even as his works were housed at galleries and museums in Washington and beyond
— a lithograph and a pencil work on paperboard, both depicting Victorian houses — belong to the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
“I would rather be a brain surgeon, but I’m an artist and I do it well, though I don’t always enjoy doing it,” he had once said. “The airbrush is dirty, you breathe fumes, it’s like factory work. But I appreciate people enjoying it, and that’s the payoff.”John Howard Grazier III was born in Long Beach, N.Y., on June 23, 1946, and spent the early part of his childhood in western Pennsylvania. He became deaf in one ear from a surgery when he was young.Mr.
One of Mr. Grazier’s many depictions of his father’s hotel, “Porch of the Bellevue Inn,” appeared to be a “meticulously photo-realistic architectural rendering,” Post art critic“But look again,” he continued. “The vertical lines of the railing are not quite parallel. Nor are the horizontals of the clapboard siding. Parts of the building seem to be settling in different directions simultaneously, pulling, warping and skewing its formerly square corners in almost imperceptible ways.
In addition to Victorian houses and buses, Mr. Grazier often painted phone booths or vacant offices with phones “either dangling from a cord or sitting unanswered on a desk — all suggesting missed connections, nobody there,”He did not depict people, preferring to allow viewers to imagine themselves in the worlds he created.. “I don’t like to hear that. I’m not lonely and I don’t feel danger.
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