Painter Milton Brightman is a very traditional artist — traditional in every sense as defined in the dictionary as that which is handed down from age to age as in traditional history, songs or stories or, that which follows or conforms to tradition by adhering to past practices or established conventions. Brightman was born a few years after World War Two in Acushnet, Massachusetts. And, since his town didn’t have a high school, he attended school in the city next door and graduated from New Bedford High School in 1967. As with many young men of his generation, he did a tour of duty during the Vietnam War. After his hitch in the U.S. Navy, he attended New Bedford’s fabled Swain School of Design to study painting. Soon after graduating, he found employment as an artist-in-residence from 1976 to 1978 with the New Bedford School Department. A year or so later, he went to work for the … [Read more...] about SOLITARY MAN: FINDING MILTON BRIGHTMAN’S RELIGION