Awards & Accomplishments

  • The only non Italian to have a Fresco in the Abbey de Monte Cassino.

  • Among the 15 Frescos he has completed one is considered to be the Largest Secular Fresco in the United States. 

  • Has Exhibited works at the Royal Academy and the Royal Portrait Society

  • Combat Art from Vietnam is Archived through the Smithsonian at the National Marine Corps Museum

  •  Is included in the Art Renewal Center’s exclusive list of “Living Masters” 

  • 2014 Long Leaf Pine Award from the State of North Carolina, recognition of the tremendous cultural impact of his artwork.

  • 2002 Distinguished Alumnus Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • 2001 Arthur Ross Award for "Excellence in the Classical Tradition"

  • 1976 Leonardo Da Vinci International Art Award

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““The greatest draftsman of the 20th Century.” ”
— Metropolitan Museum of Art Curator Philippe de Montebello

Selected Collections & Commissions

  • The Fremantle Collection, Florence, Italy

  • The Josefowitz Collection, Lausanne, Switzerland

  • The Getty Collection, San Francisco, California

  • The Christie Miller Collection, London, England

  • The Thane of Cawdor Collection, Scotland

  • The Annigoni Collection, Florence, Italy

  • The Sullivan Collection: Paris, France; Miami, Florida; New York, New York

  • The Stillman Collection, Armenia, New York

  • The Dalton Collection, Charlotte, North Carolina

  • The Governor's Mansion Portrait Collection, Raleigh, North Carolina

  • The McColl Collection, Charlotte, North Carolina

  • Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts

  • The Wells Collection, Charlotte, North Carolina

  • Bank of America Corporate Collection, Charlotte, North Carolina

  • The Mint Museum of Art Collection, Charlotte, North Carolina

  • United States Marine Corps Historical Museum, Washington, District of Columbia

Selected Commissions

  • Gov. Jim Hunt of N.C. (Governor’s Mansion Official Portrait)

  • Gordon Getty and sons

  • Hugh McColl (Former President & CEO of Bank of America)

  • Mr. and Mrs. C.D. Spangler

    • (Portrait for the Harvard Business School Spangler Student Center)

  • Musician Boz Scaggs and wife

  • Philanthropist Chauncey Stillman

  • Author and Poet Reynolds Price

  • Author Danielle Steele and family

  • Erskin Bowles (President of the University of North Carolina System)

Selected Exhibitions:

  • 2020 Blowing Rock Art & History Museum, Blowing Rock, NC : Drawing From Life

  • 2019 Gibbs Museum; Charleston, SC : Influence & Inspiration

  • 2010 Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, North Carolina

  • 2005 Gibbs Museum; Charleston SC: un | spoken [SPACES]: Inside and Outside the Boundaries of Class, Race and Space

  • 1997 Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina

  • 1995 Oglethorpe Museum, Atlanta, Georgia

  • 1994 Hickory Museum, Hickory, North Carolina

  • 1971-1992 Gaston - McKenna Galleries, Charlotte, North Carolina

  • 1982-1991 Pittore del Falterona, Catagno, Italy

  • 1975-1991 Royal Portrait Society, London, England

  • 1989-1990 American Realism Abroad Traveling Exhibition: Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas

  • 1987 Wunderlich & Co., New York, New York

  • Lewis Weiller Competition, Paris, France; Meredith College Art Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina; Roaring Gap Exhibition, Roaring Gap, North Carolina

  • 1983 Galerie Robinson, Paris, France

  • 1978 Chimera Gallery, San Fransisco, California

  • 1977 Saletta Gonnelli, Florence, Italy