Lou Kaplan, a lawyer who specialized in mental health law and later had a second career as a painter until he passed away in 2009, began his career as an artist after working as a founding partner of Carr, Bonner, O'Connell & Kaplan in the late 1960s, teaching at Georgetown University law school and in 1974, joining the Psychiatric Institutes of America as executive vice president and general counsel where he remained until the business was sold in 1982, retiring to devote himself to art. As an artist, he worked at studios in his homes in Washington DC and Aspen, Colorado, specializing in watercolors, oils, acrylics and prints. He studied at the Corcoran School of Art and Design and in Florence, Italy and Snowmass, Colorado. He had many exhibitions in the Washington area and was preparing a career retrospective at the time of death. He was a graduate of Case Western Reserve University and Harvard Law School.

King of the Hill
acrylic on canvas
50" x 50"
$4,500

Bulls and Bears
mixed media on canvas
36" x 36"
$2,800

Relining Woman II
acrylic on canvas
50" x 50"
$4,500

Valley Verse
mixed media on canvas
36" x 36"
$3,500

From Bellosguard
acrylic on canvas
21" x 29"
$1,800

Bridge to Florence
acrylic on canvas
24" x 76"
$3,500

Collision
Xerox transfer on paper
30" x 48"
$1,800

X
acrylic on paperboard
27" x 34"
$1,800

Repose
mixed media on paper
47" x 33"
$2,600

Portrait of Figure
mixed media on paper
47" x 33"
$2,600

Town & Country
acrylic on canvas
28" x 39"
$2,800