James Harrington  Stirred by the frankness of the paintings of
his impressionist heroes, James works mainly in oil. His
paintings are a harmony of material surface and subject matter
that invite the viewer into the construction of the paintings:
what lays beneath the focal plane referred to as finish. A
figure painter for six decades, Harrington has documented the
lives, ethic, and experience that distinguish America.  Born in
New York in 1929, he followed a tour of duty in the U.S. Marine
Corps by enrolling at the Art Students League. Working as an
apprentice bricklayer on a Manhattan high-rise building during
the day and taking classes at the League at night made him
embrace self-education as the catalyst to producing the
expressions of self which were his goal. Harrington focused on
the teachings of Robert Henri (1865-1929) complied by Marery
Ryerson in her book, Art Spirit. A distinguished instructor at
the League, Henri was the keystone of the New York based group
of urban life painters that became known