Now, with his family around him, he studied the art of "plein air" painting under Munich's Veltron.
Maria Rudnitskaya tended to plein air painting.
In addition to doing his own work, Molarsky taught plein air painting, watercolor and pastel to students in Nutley for many years.
Although he had trained as an academic painter and usually worked in his studio, he adopted plein air painting for the first time.
Paintings that are done outdoors are called plein air paintings.
However, he never fully abandoned his attachment to plein air painting.
He always painted in his studio and never ventured into open air painting.
In 1990, he shifted to representational/plein air painting in oil.
Landscape art remained her favourite genre, having been inspired to plein air painting by Polenova.
The first French artists to paint in the area were those particularly associated with open air painting.