Today PAUL MATTHEWS is best known for his paintings on display in museums and private collections all over the United States and Canada. But from 1946 to 1951, he was a teenager developing the discipline to be an artist at South Kent School, a small, all-boys' boarding school in Connecticut known for its quintessentially New England values. Paul Matthews studied at Cooper Union Art School in New York, where he won the Highest Achievement Award in 1960. In 1967, he and his wife settled in Pennsylvania on the banks of the Delaware River to raise their four children. He maintains a studio in Lambertville, New Jersey, where he has lived since 1987. His work is in the permanent collections of the Yeshiva University Museum in New York City, the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, New York, the Trenton City Museum in New Jersey, and the Birkenhead Gallery in Liverpool, England.