E.J. Gold has been painting scenes of New York and Woodstock since 1945, the year of his first public exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

He lived at the Zena Mill in Woodstock and grew up in Manhattan's Lower East Side in Stuyvesant Town, one of his favorite subjects, as are Greenwich Village, the East River Park, Fulton Fish Market, East Village, Central Park & Zoo, in addition to exterior and interior scenes of cafes, coffee houses, bars such as the infamous Cedar Bar, home of the New York School, where Gold's collaboration show with New York School Poet Margaret Randall was hosted, with many survivors of the Cedar Bar in attendance.

Gold's art teachers include Ben Shahn, Paul Arndt,....more Gold >>>