Portrait Demo

Becky recently came across these photos of her mother, Catherine Catanzaro Koenig, in her art class doing a portrait painting demo of her art instructor Charles Burchfield at the Art Institute of Buffalo. The photos are dated November 1955.

Catherine and Jim were friends with Charles Burchfield over the years and Becky knew him in her childhood. Catherine went on a few years after these photos to become an adjunct art instructor at SUNY Buffalo for about twenty years. She taught portrait drawing.  We have a couple of nice portraits she did of our children.