Born in Brooklyn in 1927, the son of a Russian father and Romanian mother, Jack Boul studied at the now defunct American Artist’s School, in Manhattan, before he was drafted into the U.S. Army, in 1945. When he returned, he entered the Cornish School of Art, in Seattle, from which he graduated in 1951. Boul continued to study and make art at the American University, where he later became a professor. His first solo show at the Franz Bader Gallery, in 1957, kickstarted his reputation for impressionistic paintings of objects, cityscapes and landscapes, and anonymous figures. Boul, now 97, has said that the works he’s created after age 70 are the only ones “worth bothering with.” A new exhibition of his oil paintings and monotypes allows you to be the judge. —Jack Sullivan