Divine Light: A Frank Mason Perspective, is a half-hour documentary of the life and work of renowned New York City painter and Art Student’s League ‘Master Teacher,’ Frank Mason.We travel with him from his studio above Café Roma in Little Italy, New York to Venice, Italy where he views the highlight of his career.
There his paintings hang in the 11th Century Church of San Giovanni di Malta where Bellini’s work graces the altar. When back in New York, Mason visits Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral and reflects on his life as an artist. He contemplates the true meaning of his powerful painting ‘Resurrection’ which hangs behind the altar.
Frank Mason is a stalwart painter and teacher who still believes in the Old Masters’ techniques and styles that seem lost in the modern world.
PLUCK, an Atkinson-Hammond LLC1 production, written by Dore Hammond, co-produced and co-directed by Dore Hammond and Richard Atkinson. A forty-five minute documentary about New York City in the 1950s through the early 1960s. The film sings the praises of the people who contributed to the culture of the city and to the world.New York’s varied cultural life during this decade is explored by Hammond’s personal interviews of notable New Yorkers such as William F. Buckley Jr., Dick Hyman, Betty Comden, Magnum photographer Burt Glinn, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Eileen Ford, and many others.
Their reflections and unique achievements are interwoven with dynamic Magnum photographs, clips of controversial guests on TV’s ‘Firing Line’, Dick Hyman’s piano homage to Art Tatum, and private and public archives that chronicle the achievements made by these talented New Yorkers in the city that continues to be the greatest city on earth.
George Chaplin received BFA/MFA degrees from Yale University School of Art where he studied under Josef Albers. Chaplin has exhibited through out the United States and 68 foreign countries, including Special Exhibits at the NATO Summit Meeting in Brussels, Belgium; U.S. State Department, Washington DC; the Mission to the United Nations and the Reception Room of the Secretary of State, Washington, DC. He currently lectures at Museums throughout the Northeast and is on the faculty of Trinity College, Hartford, CT.