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Where Now, Brown Cow. Wyeth knows that his work is sometimes admired by the wrong people for the wrong reasons. "Ooooo!" he mocks, "Mr. Wyeth, such a bee-o-o-ooootiful cow!" Says he: "I'm a pure abstractionist in my thought. I'm no more like a...
There was another kind of uproar in Philadelphia in November when Thomas Jefferson University announced it was going to sell--for $68 million--one of the touchstones of 19th century American painting, The Gross Clinic by Thomas Eakins, who spent nearly all of his turbulent career in Philadelphia. It didn...
At the prospect of having their cultural patrimony carted off to Arkansas, the good people of Philadelphia reared up like Italians hearing that plundered Roman marbles were being earmarked for Malibu. By the end of January they had cobbled together enough real or potential financing to keep the Eakins at...
The idea that one was as good as the other would have seemed macaronic 20 years ago, when Saint-Gaudens' name was ignored by everyone except a few elderly loyalists and some young art historians with a revisionist glint in their eyes. He had been dropped from the list, an...
Lectures on Saturday included Stanford professor Bryan Wolf’s discussion of “Figure/Ground, Lost/Found, Seeing/Wound: Eakins, Painting, Perception” and L.A. artist Harry Gamboa’s “Walking Murals: Asco’s Performative Surfaces in the Seventies.”