EVERY MORNING, RIGHT AFTER breakfast, Tony Bennett practices his craft — not with sheet music and a microphone, but with a sketch pad and canvas.
Bennett, one of the finest interpreters of the Great American Songbook, is also an accomplished artist, with three watercolors (of Central Park, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald) hanging in galleries of the Smithsonian Institution. Both his art studio and his apartment, which he shares with Susan, his wife of nearly 10 years, overlook New York’s Central Park. Today, as it is many days, the park is his subject. “Nature always changes,” he says. “It just becomes different throughout the year, so it’s never the same.”
Bennett, who turned 90 on Aug. 3, will have less time for painting in the months ahead, amid activities to…
