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...part of its Art Expo '72 program, the DeCordova invited any black and white or color photographer to submit works which they felt best represented the New England experience. Color photographers were urged to explore the terrain while black and white specialists were asked to concentrate on the people. Other than this, there were no stipulations. The results? Varied. The scope? Immense...
...DeCordova has assembled and installed no less than 930 colored slides of the landscape and 236 black and white prints of the indigenous peoples. Not that the museum did not give thought to the shaping of this multitude. Such famed photographers as Paul Petricone and Carl Seimbab selected the prints, Marie Cosindas and John Brook the colored work...
...view of New England is not particularly reminiscent of the New England we have come to know through the eyes of such visonaries as Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth or John Singer Sargent--nor through the commercial goo oozed out by company calendars or your local chamber of commerce. The DeCordova's view is new and refreshing. You will look in vain for the Vermont covered bridge, the red barns, weathered clabbard and punctuating steeple, the gulls on the wing and boats at dock (probably Rockport). You will even have to search for the Maine lobsterman, the Vermont farmer and Cape...
...however, have one-man shows in 1958 at the Fogg, 1964 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, and 1967 at the DeCordova, as well as shows in New York, Rome and elsewhere...
...merit," noted the crusty diarist judiciously on Sept. 24. Posterity agrees with his evaluation. In the 1830s, a maritime scene by Robert Salmon (see color) brought around $30 apiece. Today, Salmons sell for between $10,000 and $15,000. A recent exhibit of 93 canvases at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Mass., organized with the help of Dartmouth Art Historian John Wilmerding, drew some 8,000 visitors, and resulted in the rediscovery of 30 Salmons by dealers and Boston families...