Born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1928, Laurence Philip Sisson first took up painting as a child when a case of the chicken pox transformed him into a patient eager for a diversion to while away the hours. During high school, he took courses at the Worcester Art Museum under Herbert Barnett before enlisting with the army and serving with the U. S. occupation forces in Japan after the end of World War II. Here his creative endeavors continued; he completed a mural for a convent in Yokohama and was able to absorb the country’s fascinating history and art, which would come to inform his own painting philosophy.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1928, Laurence Philip Sisson first took up painting as a child when a case of the chicken pox transformed him into a patient eager for a diversion to while away the hours. During high school, he took courses at the Worcester Art Museum under Herbert Barnett before enlisting with the army and serving with the U. S. occupation forces in Japan after the end of World War II. Here his creative endeavors continued; he completed a mural for a convent in Yokohama and was able to absorb the country’s fascinating history and art, which would come to inform his own painting philosophy.
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