John C. Traynor Works

John C. Traynor is a skilled painter of every genre: landscape, still life and portraiture. In the tradition of the Dutch Masters, he suffuses his work with a soft rendering of light that captures the essence of nature in a quiet yet powerful way. His still lifes and portraits convey the same sense of poetic involvement, producing emotional responses in each viewer. John spent his early years in Chester and Mendham, New Jersey. His classical training began at the Delbarton School in Morristown, New Jersey, and he continued his art education at Paier College of Art in New Haven, Connecticut. As a merit scholar, John studied figure painting with Frank Mason at the Art Students League of New York. He studied drawing with Carroll Jones in Stowe, Vermont and sculpture with Brother Jerome Cox in Florence, Italy. Mr. Traynor is a member of the Hudson Valley Art Association, The Salamagundi Club of New York, the National Society of Mural Painters and he is a Copley Master in the Copley Society of Boston. John has received over two hundred awards of merit for his art including The Salmagundi Club Medal of Merit and Honor, the Grumbacher Gold Medal, the Robb Sagendorph Award and the Frank Dumond Memorial Award for best light and atmosphere in painting. His art is enjoyed in many private and public collections in the United States and abroad. John travels extensively, painting landscapes on location. He has made a number of painting expeditions to Ireland as well as trips to Holland, Brussels, Italy and France. Mr. Traynor currently resides with his family in southern New Hampshire and enjoys painting rural New England scenes, New York cityscapes, and the clear light of the American shoreline.