An artist's life was far from Peter Solow's (born 1952) mind when he was a boy growing up in Manlius, New York, outside Syracuse, the son of a technical writer and an English teacher. "I'd been drawing since I was tiny, soldiers and horses, the typical stuff," he said. "I had a propensity for it, a facility that most kids don't have." His hobby, however, became his vocation when he was in high school, after a blade broke off the lawnmower while he was cutting the grass and he suffered a seriously lacerated leg. Laid up for several weeks, the boy spent "hours and hours on my own just drawing. That was the hook."
[Acrylic on canvas, 142.2 x 178 cm]
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