Arts Editor Captures Stories From Stanley Lindwasser In Highlands Current Article Before 2018 Show

Art editor for the Highlands Current, Alison Rooney, captured many of Stanley Lindwasser’s words that have never been in print. Without journalism, the words and thoughts from many people would be left to memory only. For the opening of Stanley’s exhibit in 2018 at Oak Vino, the Highlands Current did a feature piece.

Alison picked up on Stanley’s love for his family, and his desire to stay with them as much as possible. To pay the bills, he did teach full time at “a Bronx school for emotionally disturbed children, then to a psychiatric facility, then to homeless shelters to teenagers at Harlem Hospital,” according to the article.

Here are some quotes from Stanley that Alison was able to capture:

Titled Paintings 2018, it opens on Second Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018, with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Lindwasser’s colorful, striped paintings are all untitled because, he argues, “naming things is a misdirection.”

“I work on the possibilities until I get bored.” So every day he paints. “I like making shapes and forms, letting the liquid dry. I like natural forms, gravity, movement.”

He and his wife, Helen Crohn, a therapist and social worker, moved to the Highlands in 2016 from a brownstone in Hoboken. They were introduced to the area by their daughter. “She thought it would be good for us. We were going to Manhattan less and less; the New Jersey taxes were terrible; the transportation was good; and we wanted more of the country,” Lindwasser says.

He began to paint, and there was a period when all he did was self-portraits, “varying the proportions of the features, though not in a fun-house way, although it did scare the kids a little. It was sort of like a collection of ancestors — but they were all me.”

He also taught full-time to pay the bills. He and Crohn met at a synagogue. “He picked me up at a kiddush,” she recalls with a grin.

Behind The Scenes of Stanley In The Studio With His Paintings, 2016

Stanley enjoyed being in his studio, after absorbing light and life around him from the outdoors. He would take what he experienced outside and paint it to canvas. These pictures are of some of the works that Stanley shared at the Beacon Open Studios in the Hudson Valley of New York. Most of them are from the 2017 Collection, which you can access here. The large red painting behind Stanley is in the 2016 Collection, which you can access here.

Beacon Open Studios wrote about Stanley, his paintings, and his love for sunsets and rock formations here.

The Artist Stanley Lindwasser Has Passed Away At Age 73

February 17, 1947-May 3, 2020

Stanley (Stan) Lindwasser, a resident of Beacon for 4 years, died on May 3, 2020, in his home in Beacon, N.Y., of pulmonary fibrosis, with his wife and children nearby.

Stan was an extremely prolific painter for over 50 years; his last solo show was at Oak Vino in Beacon in 2019. His works, both large and small, were painted with acrylics on canvas. These works evoked in the viewer landscapes, sky, water, rocks, and mountains. He also showed locally with BeaconArts, and at the Rhinebeck Bank. Previously he exhibited at the Barrett Art Center and in SoHo, as well as Manhattan galleries and in New Jersey. Stan’s Artist Statement and career history are available at his website.

A native of Brooklyn, Stan lived there and in Forest Hills, N.Y., and Hoboken, N.J., until coming to the Hudson Valley with his wife, Helen Crohn. He loved the sunsets over the Hudson, the rock formations and the mountains surrounding the town, and used them for inspiration for his work and his peaceful surroundings. He loved collecting books and art objects from his travels.

Stan always said he wanted to continue painting as long as he was capable; he produced his last works in April 2020. In addition to his wife, he is survived by three children, Aliza Benson, Jacob Lindwasser and Mike Lindwasser, and three grandchildren, Daniel, Joshua and Eden.