Larry Witham (b. 1952) earned his bachelor’s degree in painting in 1974 at San Jose State University in his native northern California. Although he followed a career in writing and publishing, he has maintained his interest in representational drawing and painting. He has been an award-winning journalist and author in the Washington D.C. area. After leaving the newspaper business in 2003, Witham wrote and edited books. He is the author of 16 books, the last four on art and art history. His Piero’s Light (2014), on the Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca, was a finalist in the Pen Literary Awards for biography. His novel Gallery Pieces: An Art Mystery, came out in 2016 (with two sequel novels in 2023). Around 2015, Witham geared up to become a full-time painter. He is a member of Oil Painters of America, the Portrait Society of America, and the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association. He has exhibited at venues in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey. Witham works in oils, watercolor, and pastel and is interested in landscape, figures, and still life. He and his wife live in West Laurel, Maryland.

Contact by email: larrywitham@gmail.com.