Passed away January 15th, 2019
Paul Clement Matthews II, an artist and writer based in Lambertville, NJ, and Keene, NY, whose paintings were shown at galleries and museums in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and elsewhere, died on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019, in Hamilton, NJ, where he had been hospitalized with a chronic lung disease. He was 85.
Matthews’ work ranged from portraits and nudes done in a meticulous, realistic style, to majestic landscapes and cloudscapes of the Adirondack high peaks, to darker, dreamlike scenes that reflected a surreal inner world. His work was honored with a 2011 retrospective at the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, as well as a one-person show in 2003 at Trenton’s New Jersey State Museum, and 36 other individual and group exhibitions over the years. He is also well-represented in the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, NY, after years as one of the Adirondacks’ best known landscape painters.
Paul was the son of the late Thomas Stanley “T.S.” Matthews and Juliana Stevens Cuyler Matthews and the brother of the late Thomas S. Matthews Jr. and John P.C. Matthews.
He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Leilia Barry Matthews; his brother, W. Alexander “Sandy” P. Matthews; his children, Thomas of Lambertville, NJ, Harry of Catskill, NY, Hyla Matthews Heyniger of Washington, DC, and Joshua of Brooklyn, NY; his foster daughter, G. Addie Andino; and his six grandchildren.