A painted illustration of a red wooden telephone booth with a blue sign that reads, 'Phone,' mounted on a tree trunk amidst yellow and green foliage.

“I carefully observe my environment, searching for the visual keys in my paintings.

Inviting viewers to unlock the truth as I see it… to have their own emotional response.”

Samuel Marc Kaplan

Samuel Kaplan is a recognized (askART and ArtNet) Figurative Landscape Artist/Painter whose influences are rooted in the “American Realism” Art Movement of the early to mid-twentieth Century. 

Trained in classic Olde World “Oil on Canvas” painting techniques at the Art Students League, Samuel Kaplan’s career spans three decades, with One-Man shows at Sundance Galleries, Bridgehampton, Americano Galley, Tribeca and X Gallery, SOHA NYC; and selected Group exhibitions, including Millennium Gallery, East Hampton, Art Basel, Miami, FL, Stendahl Gallery SOHO, Wetherholt Gallery, Washington, D.C., and Parsons School of Design. 

Samuel has taught as an Adjunct Professor at Parsons School of Design and the Fashion Institute of Technology.