Paul Graubard was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1932 and grew up in Passaic, New Jersey, a mill town 15 miles from New York City and 50 years behind the times.
He spent his early school years reading, doodling and playing hooky and dropped out in the 10th grade to hitchhike around the country. After taking a high school equivalency exam, he went to college, married, and settled down in New York City to raise a family.
He worked as a teacher, a professor, and a psychologist, always finding work that gave him the autonomy he craved. His eldest daughter’s untimely death from cancer hit him hard, setting off a period of too much drinking and smoking.
On a whim, and maybe out of desperation, he started to draw. Two years later he discovered painting, gave up his practice as a psychologist and has been working full time and a half as a painter since then. He believes that stumbling onto art saved his well-being, if not his life.
He now lives in Lenox, Massachusetts with his wife Karen.
Godiva Dancers
Sunflowers in Blue
Sunflower in Orange
Mrs. O'Leary's Cow
Winter
Dance Macabre 2
Boogie Woogie Plaid
Black Birds
Blue Loons
Loons