Jerry Weiss

He has held solo exhibitions at galleries in New York, Boston, New Jersey and Maine. His work is represented in the New Britain Museum of American Art; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Pfizer Inc.; the Harvard Club of New York; Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston; and Debevoise & Plimpton in New York. He has taught workshops and lectured in Florida, New York, Washington, Maine, and Colorado. Having long taught painting and drawing at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Weiss currently instructs at the Art Students League of New York. He is listed in Who's Who in American Art and Who's Who in America. In 2012 he curated an exhibition of large-scale figure works that included paintings by Dinnerstein, Mary Beth McKenzie, Dan Gheno and Tom Loepp.

Spring, Mosquito Head, 2009, oil on canvas, 30" x 40"

Weiss is a contributing editor of The Artist's Magazine, for which, in July 2008, he began a regular "Master Class" feature of art historical analyses on painting, the history of painting and various works and periods in Western art history. Among his other features have been assessments of contemporary masters, and an essay on his father.

Expectation, Wendy and Adrian, 2008, oil on canvas, 36" x 48"

Cobalt Autumn, 2007, oil on canvas, 30" x 36"

Spring Trees, 2005, oil on canvas, 48" x 36"

Evening, Duck River, 2004, oil on canvas, 24" x 48"

Standing Nude, 2002, oil on canvas, 48" by 24"

Adriane, c. 2000, oil on canvas, 48" x 36"

Portrait of Daniel Edwards, who is sculpting a head of Jerry Weiss; c.2000, oil on canvas, 60 x 38"

He began his career during the 1980s as a figurative painter. Ten years later, he took on landscapes – a genre in which he is self-taught – eventually realizing he could treat them as he did a figure in an interior, in terms of composition, pattern and shape. In 1994 he started teaching at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts. He held a one-man exhibition at the Boca Raton Museum of Art in 1999. The executive director of the museum, George S. Bolge, wrote of his paintings:

Jerry Weiss (born October 21, 1959) is an American figurative, landscape, and portrait painter and a writer. He studied classical drawing, and his career has centered on both the figure (usually from life studies), and landscape (often painted in the outdoors). He says he is "intrigued by the portrait and figure as a most sacred subject."

Weiss was born in New Jersey, but soon after the family moved to North Miami, Florida. He was influenced by the graphic freedom and assured skill of cartoonists, whose work he saw in his father's large collection. Morris asked for his son's advice when buying works by Dean Cornwell (1892–1960) and had once sat for James Montgomery Flagg (1877–1960). As a child, he had over his bed a Saturday Evening Post cover by J. C. Leyendecker (1874–1951) and later a drawing by Norman Rockwell.