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...painting. His colors grew warmer and more radiant, his scale ever grander. He turned to sculpture; his most singular work, Broken Obelisk, today stands in Houston as a memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. Intuitive, romantic, passionate, he unabashedly was. "But more than anything else," said Critic Lawrence Alloway last week, "he showed how to do the most with the least...
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...Cornell has kept himself and his work so aloof from the world for so long that he has become more a subject for intellectual quarterlies than for public display. But a lately revived interest in surrealism and the reappearance of nonabstract art are drawing attention back to him. Lawrence Alloway, former curator of New York's Guggenheim Museum, originally picked him as one of four artists to represent the U.S. at this year's Venice Biennale. California's forward-looking Pasadena Art Museum plans a survey of his work for this coming autumn...
...Pavilion, which resembles a miniature Monticello, nearly wound up empty. For the first time, the Smithsonian Institution's National Collection of Fine Arts was charged with the job of filling it. The Smithsonian, in turn, asked the British-born curator of New York's Guggenheim Museum, Lawrence Alloway, 39, to select what was finest in American...
...Alloway, credited with coining the term pop, picked the late Jackson Pollock, the late David Smith, Joseph Cornell, maker of bric-a-brac-packed boxes, Ernest Trova, who endlessly repeats images of falling men, and Roy Lichtenstein. His choice was promptly amended by his boss, Guggenheim Director Thomas Messer, who dropped Lichtenstein and Pollock and chose mostly sculpture. Displeased, the Smithsonian then turned the whole deal over to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's associate curator, Henry Geldzahler, 30. Last week Alloway resigned from the Guggenheim...