BIOGRAPHY

 

Paul David Elsen is an award winning, commissioned artist whose mediums are oil paint, and drawing. His work has been exhibited at The Salmagundi Club, The Heckscher Museum of Art, The Huntington Arts Council Gallery, The Art League of Nassau County, and the National Art League.

 

Mr. Elsen went to The High School of Art & Design, where he studied painting under the renowned portrait painter and illustrator Max Ginsburg, and drawing with the late Irwin Greenberg. While at the school he participated in the now-famed “Old Hat Club”, a painting group run by those teachers which served to instruct how to render live models observationally and realistically (a rare practice from the 1960's through 1980's). Paul David is proud to consider himself as part of the contemporary Realism Revival movement, which in part sprang from that group (other students included noted artists Steven Assael, Ricky Mujica, Garin Baker, Helen Oh, and Costa Vavagiakis, among others).

 

In more recent times, Mr. Elsen has continued to develop his skills with  Dominique Medici, Ricky Mujica, Robert Silverman, Howard Rose, Paul Bachem, the late David Beynon Pena, and again with Max Ginsburg.

 

Besides creating art, Mr. Elsen has a wide ranging love of art history ranging from the Old Masters to modern illustration, with special affinity for Rembrandt and Velazquez, and for later 19th Century artists such as Sargent, Zorn, Waterhouse, Mucha, and Klimt.