Ray Barron, New England School of Art & Design, (portrait of him on this link) sponsored a full scholarship to study painting in Athens, Greece for a summer when I was 19 yrs. old. This trip changed my life & I will be forever grateful to this kindly, generous man who not only sponsored me but other students as well.

 

This link contains a few oil paintings that were "professionally" photographed. During a bitterly cold winter I carried these paintings, even the enormous ones, from school...perspiring despite the frigid air...onto the subway (since they were large & clumsy they caused irritation amongst the already annoyed passengers)...then to a photographer's studio across town. And there were many trips. He charged $45 a painting, an enormous sum at that time. The quality was not good but I accepted them since I could not bear dragging them back to his studio.