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Walter Edward Benkert Sipe...
Rear Admiral William Benkert, chief of the Coast Guard's Office of Merchant Vessel Safety, indignantly denies the environmentalists' charges. "We haven't been sitting on our dead ass," he protests. But someone is. The U.S. has yet to ratify the liability convention adopted by the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization in 1969. Congress has yet to see the Administration's bill carrying out IMCO'S 1973 convention on ocean pollution. Nor was the U.S. successful in pushing for the adoption of rules requiring newly constructed tankers to have double bottoms. Such a construction feature is now mandatory...
...roomed with Anuszkiewicz while studying under Albers at Yale, try not to imitate nature. "I use visual activities," says Stanczak, "to run parallel to it" (right). There is even a U.S. group, impersonally called Anonima. Composed of three young men, Francis Hewitt (below), Edwin Mieczkowski (next page) and Ernst Benkert, who met at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and Oberlin College in 1958 and '59, they believe that the rule and the compass are proper artist's tools. Like other op artists, they dislike artistic preciousness, the expression of the prima donna personality on canvas, and psychic plumbing...
Although the 34 oils that make up the major part of the show cover subjects ranging from landscapes to the entrails cart of a Martinique slaughterhouse, Cooke is at his best in a half-dozen portraits. Probably the best of these is his Portrait of Ernst Benkert, executed with bold brushwork in a subdued but powerful palette...
...speed with which Cooke's style is developing has already climinated these and other flaws in the later paintings. From the earliest work in the show, Dry Mountain, Jamaica, (1951) to the Benkert portrait and Tower of Babel, he has come a long way in both technique and color. Almost sloppy, ineffective brushwork and a frightened approach to a Fauve palette in the former are resolved into a powerfully executed composition in the rich, dark colors, which Cooke now favors, in the latter...