“AN ARTIST PAINTS BEST WHAT HE KNOWS AND LOVES BEST”

Stan Masters (1922-2005)

Working in the American Realist tradition, Stan Masters tells the story of America in transition, where the rural lifestyles of the past yield to the urbanization of the present, with the railroad playing an integral role in the process. Keenly observed and affectionately rendered, these watercolors illustrate Masters´ truism that “an artist paints best what he knows and loves best.