About the artist...


I Missed the Memorial Day Parade (May 2008)




W A T E R C O L O R . . .
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A Sampler of  Small, Recent  Work Below:  most recent work at the beginning of each category

   
LATEST SERIES...


         
Visual cues about life in Weston
"Turn of the Screws" is a substitute for notes taken at the Building Committee on August 27, 2008, the day before schools opened for the year! 



"Dust to Dust" (detail) plays with shadows in a different way!



          
Detail, "No Exit"                             "After DeChirico."                                                 




"Theatre" is the next in the W.H.S. auditorium redo series. 



  "Behind the Blue Door"
                                                                                                                                        


Landscape, aerial views,  architecture


"UP ON THE ROOF" (of TOWN HALL)  and the original song here.  

     
"Neo-Classic Rocks!" (detail)                "Weston Town Hall:  On The Outside Looking In" (detail)


                           
"Under Construction," "Glorious Slate," "In the shadow of the tower..." and "Nght Falls (detail)" above.  Not an antique, Weston Town Hall sits in the first Historic District.  One of the things that distinguishes the Weston Town Hall area is how well new and older styles of architecture blend together. 

  


        
A series of paintings about time.   And place.
It is Memorial Day at the Weston Town Hall gazebo and "greensward" (May 2008)...the artist stayed home to paint rather than attend the ceremony.


Memorial Day Honor - "No Words Could Describe It"    




     
In the Berkshires (May 2008)         More Berkshire Landscape (May 2008)





Lachat, Winter, 2007




Winter Snow, 2005-2006




Weston Intermediate School Under Construction, 2004



             
Aerial Norfield (sold)                    Norfield Easter (sold)




 
               
Town Hall Roof                         Town Hall Greensward, 2004 (sold)            
    

      
In the Historic District, 2007        A New Look, 2007 (sold)



      
                                                                                                                                          Georgetown, 2006                                                     Detail of School Road Plan  (sold)                                           Aerial Saugatuck (sold)

               


       
 Divided Loyalties, 2006 (sold)





From the Studio, Winter Snow, 2007





Saugatuck Reservoir (2006)



Lachat Barns (sold)

What can be learned from studying the work of others?


   
Once You've Seen One Field...After Frielecher (March 2008)






                 
After Fairfield Porter, 2004 (sold)                                 After Kenset, 2004 (sold)






                  
After Peto, 2005                                           45 Degree Hopper, 2005 (sold)                Homeric Memory, 2004





Flowers and still-life


SKETCH:  After O'Keefe (2008)


Detail of Fauve Still Life (May 2008)





Two Perspectives, 2007



                           


Red Roses For Me 2007




                                                        
                
Symbolic Flowers - (in a private            Easter Flowers 2007 (sold) 
collection)                                 


 
Red Tulips, 2005



Still-life, 2005





Where's the cat?



Portrait

        
Al (April 2008)                             Detail, Tracey on the Moors (May 2008) - (in a private collection)        


     


Oliver (in a private collection)


                          
My Dad                                    Mommy Had Eyes in the            Detail of larger painting -
                                               Back of Her Head                       CAT WOMAN:  1950's Dinner in the Bronx     

                           
 

About the artist                                 
          
Apr 26, 2007 - I - WESTON FORUM
Weston: Margaret Wirtenberg honored with Millie Best Award
This Saturday, April 28, the Kiwanis Club of Weston will kick off Green-Up Day by honoring Westonite Margaret Wirtenberg with the third annual Kiwanis Millie Best Environmental Award.

The award will be presented at 9 a.m. at the Norfield Church parish hall.

Ms. Best, who died in 2004, started Green-Up Day in 1972 by organizing a townwide effort to pick up trash and litter from Weston’s roadsides on the last Saturday of April. In 1995, the governor signed a bill making the last Saturday in April Green-Up Day for all of Connecticut.

Since 1999, The Weston Forum readers have been reading About Town, Dr. Wirtenberg’s weekly column on local development and the environment. She is also the producer and host of About Town, a program on Cablevision Channel 77 about Connecticut’s 169 towns.

Dr. Wirtenberg was instrumental in developing the town’s conservation plans and spearheaded the effort to start up an annual Hazardous Waste Collection day, held in conjunction with Green-Up Day.

Some may be unaware of the scope of her contributions to the town since she and her husband, Al, moved to Weston in 1980. Since 1996, she has been a member of the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations and has been a Weston representative on South Western Regional Planning Agency (SWRPA).

She served on the Weston Planning and Zoning Commission and was a consultant to Greater Bridgeport Transit District. One special volunteer role has been as a land use specialist for the League of Women Voters of Connecticut.

In the 25 years she has lived in town, Dr. Wirtenberg probably holds the record for attending the most board meetings, from planning to education, of any citizen. Dr. Wirtenberg said she is truly committed to this town and believes volunteerism is its heart.

A graduate of Barnard College, she went on to get her master’s degree in planning from the Graduate School of Architecture, Pratt Institute, and a doctorate in public administration from New York University.

She is a watercolorist and particularly enjoys painting Weston landscapes. It’s because of her love for the beauty of the land that she says, “For this and other reasons more important to society at large, I am interested in preserving the natural environment.”

After the presentation of the award, rain or shine, the kickoff of Green-Up Day begins at 10:15 behind Norfield Church. Collection bags and routing instructions will be issued.