2010 Kent Land Trust's Marble Valley Farm Art Project in progress (Click)
Read the Litchfield County Times' September 2010 LCT Magazine article
George Wittman was born in New York City in 1963. He studied painting at Harpur College at Binghamton University. During his school years in Binghamton, George served as the principle scenic artist for a major New York State regional opera company, Tri-Cities Opera. Moving back to Manhattan in 1985, he worked as a union scenic artist for ten years, painting large scale backdrops for many Broadway shows including Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera and sets for the Metropolitan Opera.
George Wittman began showing his landscapes in New York in 1986 at the Jus de Pomme gallery in the East Village. He has also shown at White Columns Gallery, Wessel O’Connor Gallery, P.S. 122 and the Ed Williams Gallery in East Hampton. Since 2004, George Wittman has exhibited new work for the last four years at John Koch Antiques in New York and Koch-McErlain in Summit, New Jersey. In 2009, George moved from Manhattan to Kent, Connecticut. He recently began a large series of new work at Marble Valley Farm, part of the Kent Land Trust. Megan Haney who runs Marble Valley has graciously dubbed him the "artist in residence".
Wittman seeks to connect his contemporary painting with 19th century tradition. His images cover many regions; landscape from Connecticut's Litchfield County to New York's Hudson Valley, to Northern California can be seen in his work. “I am inspired by both the contemporary realist movement and the 19th century schools of art, particularly the Hudson River School, the Barbizon and the tonalist movement. I want to present a personal, emotional relationship to natural landscape in my painting."
George Wittman is the grandson of well known syndicated cartoonist George Clark, whose comic panel “The Neighbors” ran nationally from 1939 to 1972.