Dropping back in...
I'll admit to having dragged Weingarten in more than once....
There are painters like him that I think are doing something very heroic. They are translating the great tradition into contemporary and personal contexts.
Paul was once loosely associated with another painter named Simon Gaon, who in turn was a member of The Street Painters, a New York-based group. Here is one of his.
...and I will throw in a completely unrelated portraitist, a regionalist, David Bates, who paints the gulf coast (though I think he lives in Dallas).
[Very (too?) like Marden Hartley?]