Michael C. Spafford
Spafford considered himself primarily a formalist, seeking to attract the viewer by visual structure of his work over demonstration of his illustrative skill.
From 1959 until his death in 2022, he worked and
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reworked versions of Greco-Roman mythology dealing mostly with themes of conflict, conquest and origin. Through the selection of these stories he felt free to make paintings that looked the way he wanted them to, that is to say assertive, graphic and confrontational.
1935-2022