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...Cooper makes sure that each artist has paid her $20 membership fee and $2 entry fee. Each artist makes sure that she rests in Cooper's affection. "They all use me," says Cooper, "because they think I can sell their work. All they want is to sell something. For their ego. They don't need the money...
Last week, Cooper's Cambridge Art Association held its annual prize show. Most of the contestants were women. One-hundred forty works were ferried in the back seat with the kids from Belmont, Newton and Brookline to the small gallery near Cambridge Common...
That night, the judges, two professors from local colleges, select forty-five works in different media. Cooper comments afterwards that one of the judges must have been color-blind--the one that awarded a prize to a large constructed painting. The painting consists of two semi-circular canvases in between which four oblong panels dangle from brightly colored plastic chains. On each panel is the letter L, O, V or E, each in a different loud color. Over the letters are painted objects like sea shells and flowers...
...Cooper's over-fifty double chin and over-the-belt bulge go well with his British accent. But, his Anglophilic decorum seems incongruous among the insistent telephone calls and the stream of ambitious go-go-booted women who curtly pick up their rejected works. "The divorcees always invite me to their homes," he complains. "I usually refuse. One woman sends me obscene letters. Once she invited me to take a bath with her. I stopped reading her letters until she started writing about all the women who were trying to get me fired. Why? Because I didn't sell their...
Despite the frustrations of accomodation, Cooper is one of the few successful art dealers left in Harvard Square. Though the intellectual atmosphere of the university community would seem likely to support a thriving art trade, the truth is quite the opposite. In the past year, at least four galleries have had to close down, and the few that have managed to survive have often had to trade off quality for prosperity...