PAUL JOSEPH PENCZNER

My wife and I with our one-year-old daughter settled in Memphis in the mid-1960s. Detecting my accent, people frequently asked me where I am from. After telling them that I came from Hungary, I often quickly was told about Paul Penczner, who by then was well-established in Memphis and known by many. Upon my first visit to his Studio, he gave me my first tour of my new home city of Memphis through his artwork, without ever leaving the Studio. As I started to move around the city, I found...

Dear Yolanda, My thoughts and prayers are with you at this difficult time, Mr. Penczner was my friend and inspiration for many years, his support and encouragement was very important in my art career. He will be missed by so many people that he touched with his extraordinary talent, but his legacy will live on in his work. Linda Disney

Dear Penczner Family,
It was an honor to meet Mr. Penczner several years ago at the Biblical Resource Center in Collierville. We will forever enjoy and treasure his Twelve Apostles at OLPH Catholic Church. Great man, great mind, great works of art. Thank you for sharing him. We share your sorrow and great loss. May he rest in God's eternal peace. Stanetta Connor

Yolanda, I was very sorry to read about Paul's death in today's paper. I have many fond memories of you and Paul at Carol and George Gage's home--they thought the world of Paul. Carol died in 1987 and George several years later (1999, I think). I have several of Carol's paintings hanging in my living room.

While I have not seen either of you in many years, you both were good friends to my family and I remember those days with happiness--

I so vividly remember being in downtown Memphis in my first plein-air painting class with Paul. I was 10 and it was 1956. The smell of linseed oil still brings memories of painting still lifes in his studio, as a student in his Saturday class. The truth be known, my career as an artist, and now a Fine Art Dealer, was initiated and inspired by Paul Penczner. He will be missed but always remembered.

The loss of someone so close is difficult to bear. We share your grief.

Forever in my Heart

I had a ball buying my two paintings from him and being in his studio. Linda Walter Memphis