Thom Hagerth - Fine Art
About the Artist |
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Thom Hagerth, born and raised in New York City, came to oil painting by chance in the late 1960s. While wandering the city streets, he happened across the storefront gallery/studio of Italian-American artist Joseph Collazzi. Although not formally teaching, Mr. Collazzi agreed to his apprenticeship thereby starting a lifelong passion and love affair with oil painting. In addition to numerous master classes and workshops, he has studied at New York's Art Students League and attended the Lyme Academy of Fine Art, Old Lyme Connecticut. His instructors include noted still life artist David Laffel, Robert Brackman and Tosca Olinsky, watercolorists Dong Kingman, the late Dean Keller Jr. and Pulitzer Prize-winning Yale artist/Professor Rudy Zallenger for figure drawing and art anatomy, as well as his son Peter Zallenger for still life and portraiture. Mr. Hagerth has exhibited in numerous shows over the years including the Eric Sloan Show in Sugarloaf NY, the Garrison Art Festival, Westchester Art Association, and was featured, while residing in NYC, at the prestigious Biltmore Gallery. He taught painting and drawing from his Salisbury Mills, NY studio before relocating to Connecticut. Most of Mr. Hagerth's works can be found in private collections. |
