02/19/2021
Dale Weaver Totten (1938–2008) was born in Summit, New Jersey.... He attended art school in Maryland, where he met his wife Mary, who worked as a stock broker during 1960s...In the late 1970’s and 1980’s, Totten was the senior artist at The Walt Disney Company in Florida...
His subjects are ordinary people engaged in mundane activities... He was inspired by the painting of Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Modigliani, as well as the great commercial illustrators of his time.
According to his daughter Tabitha, Totten’s legacy was “being able to communicate with and give to people,” and the singular way in which his artwork “saw through time and was all-inclusive.”