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"Webster was very much a romanticist," Erickson said, adding that "Rather than the novel, he used the political arena as his canvas."
One of the paintings on the White House walls was switched without announcement or ceremony last month, but not because the subject was unknown. The reason is that former President Richard Nixon, 71, never did like the portrait of him by Alexander Clayton that hung for three years outside the...
Will Barnet is best known for his prints; his bold use of primary colors and flattened perspective, along with the enigmatic presence of women and cats, has become a trademark. The public knows far less about Barnet's painting, and with good reason; a substantial number of his works...
The shake-out in frames is yet to come. The genuinely imaginative conceits are already outnumbered by gratuitous doodads that seem to have little function except to disguise inert painting. After the challenging stringencies of painting in the 1970s, artists and buyers are in the mood for a little fun...
Perhaps this explains Monsieur's failure, in his own eyes, as an artist. He was too faithful a family man, too attentive a student, too much a gentleman to renounce the academic style and strike out boldly for the terrain charted by the impressionists. "Perhaps I lacked courage," he...