Sebastian Wintermute Studio

Sebastian Wintermute Studio Sebastian Wintermute is a New York City-based visual artist.

His distinct vision and style were developed through the study of the works and lives of the great abstract and surrealist artists of the 20th century, ancient mythology, contemporary poetry, and storytelling.

TREE OF KNOWLEDGE
11/04/2025

TREE OF KNOWLEDGE

CROSSING DELANCYRainy day over the Lower East Side
10/20/2025

CROSSING DELANCY
Rainy day over the Lower East Side

NE SONO FIERO, SONO L'ITALIANO, UN ITALIANO VERO
10/13/2025

NE SONO FIERO, SONO L'ITALIANO, UN ITALIANO VERO

“I will never forget the sweet smell of the smoke coming out of the chimneys. The smell of burning human bodies.” A Holo...
09/10/2025

“I will never forget the sweet smell of the smoke coming out of the chimneys. The smell of burning human bodies.” A Holocaust Survivor told me during a conversation over her family photo albums and photographs.

For almost two years I worked for companies located in the Financial District of New York City and I will never forget the day when the Towers fell, and the smell that lingered over the Lower Manhattan for months and months, as the fires kept on burning deep beneath the ruins.

For the longest time I avoided walking through the area or looking at the new building. But the time came, and I looked up at the just the right moment, from just the right place, to see ones again the beautiful sky reflected in the building reaching out into the eternal blue.

LET US NEVER FORGET, LET US NEVER ALLOW IT TO BE REPEATED.

#911

Not long after I settled down in New York City for good, I was fortunate enough to land a job in a company based in the ...
09/09/2025

Not long after I settled down in New York City for good, I was fortunate enough to land a job in a company based in the Financial District. Whenever the weather permitted, I would get out early to stroll through the quiet streets of SoHo, cross Canal Street to wonder through Tribeca, and then make my way across the World Trade Center, marveling at the laconic beauty of the Twin Towers and the kaleidoscope of shapes and colors they reflected.

On September 11, I got up early. The Sun was shining into my windows and birds singing in a small park behind my building

#911 #911

MIDSUMMER'S TWIGHLIGHT SAILOR’S DREAMStaggering around the Old Baltimore on a foggy afternoon, making frequent stops to ...
09/08/2025

MIDSUMMER'S TWIGHLIGHT SAILOR’S DREAM
Staggering around the Old Baltimore on a foggy afternoon, making frequent stops to take a swig from a flask filled with coffee and spiced rum, I turned a corner and as a wisp of wind blew away the fog, suddenly found myself standing in front of what appeared to be a bow of an old battleship, weathered and scarred, but defiantly struggling to cut it’s way through the concrete of the pavement.

The angle of the building, the positions of the streetlights were so perfect, that all I had to do was to focus the camera and commit the vision to film. The absence of the people around, the silence brought down upon the streets by the fog, made me feel that the encounter occurred not in the middle of the summer’s day but in a fleeting moment of the twilight, the elusive state between the reality and a dream.

EAGLES AND ANGELSfine art print, natural rag paperlimited edition, signed and numberedA few years back, I was commission...
09/04/2025

EAGLES AND ANGELS
fine art print, natural rag paper
limited edition, signed and numbered

A few years back, I was commissioned to restore and to make reproductions of a photograph of Henri Matisse taken by his son Pierre. The photograph captured the great artist relaxing on the rooftop of 10 Mitchell Place, where he resided during the stay in New York City. While exploring and photographing the rooftop for references that later would become invaluable during restoration of the original photograph, I turned around and became mesmerized by the vision of the Chrysler Building daringly reaching for the sky while surrounded by the unassuming residential structures.

However, the angle of the image, when viewed from the rooftop did not look quite right, and to capture a better view, I had to climb all the way to the top of the wooden water tower, carefully balancing myself and holding to the ladder for dear life, while trying to keep the camera steady. Fortunately, lessons learned and experience gained working off tall ships, helped me not only to save myself from panicking, falling down, and becoming a poorly executed imitation of an early work by Jackson Po***ck on the sidewalk of New York, but to perfectly frame the camera’s lens and to capture the vision of the Chrysler Building, and it’s surrounding.

https://www.sebastianwintermute.com/20210911-sebastian-wintermute-eagles-and-angels.html

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TIMES SQUARE RHAPSODYfine art print, natural rag paperlimited edition, signed and numberedGeorge Gershwin described New ...
09/02/2025

TIMES SQUARE RHAPSODY
fine art print, natural rag paper
limited edition, signed and numbered

George Gershwin described New York City as a “musical kaleidoscope of America, of our vast melting pot, of our unduplicated national pep, of our metropolitan madness”.

Inspired by Gershwin’s music “Times Square Rhapsody” took months to complete, adding, deleting, rearranging, and adjusting the images to create a collage that strives to convey the feeling one gets from looking at the Crossroads of the World, listening to the sounds of the city below.

https://www.sebastianwintermute.com

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For over a decade Sebastian Wintermute has been restoring and preserving historic and ancestral photographs and documents, from camera obscura portraits of American settlers to NASA documentation of Apollo Moon missions; from American Revolution era documents signed by the Founding Fathers of the United States to pictures of the WWII American GIs crossing the Rhine and faded Polaroid snapshots taken at the Woodstock music festival. Sebastian's knowledge of art, photography and restoration techniques makes him a true expert in the field of photo restoration, while his deep knowledge and passion for history often turns seemingly simple restoration project into fascinating journeys of discovery of long forgotten names and places.