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Being stuck with the lease, Bartlett stayed there, and having nothing else to do she drew the view from her window, over and over again-a total of nearly 200 studies of the pool, the boy, the gravel, the cypresses, the shadows. She drew on the spot, from photographs and later from memory; the banal content of the failed holiday slowly acquired a precision through being shuffled, isolated, winnowed. The final result is a group of eight large paintings in which the schematic dissection of the garden that Bartlett carried out in her drawings is rethought, the elements locked together...
...deft maker of marks; she understands the syntax of representation so well that hardly an inch of surface goes slack. The way she renders the dusty black recesses of a cypress, or the paddle-like leaves of a foreground plant, or the lunar speckling of artificially lit gravel-and does it in terms of relentlessly agile movements of a broad brush-is a lesson in decisiveness. It would be hard to think of more fluent paint handling in current art than the set of three views of the tiled tank, named Pool, 1983. One reads it from left to right...
...home in the upper-middle class. From this vantage he decodes its symbols and looks down at variations in the lower stratas. Driveways, of all things, strike him with deep significance. Curved is preferred over straight because more land is used, suggesting that the owner has plenty to spare. Gravel, particularly if it is beige, surpasses asphalt because it is more difficult to maintain...
...caught the attention of the late Nancy Hanks, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. A shrewd politician and dedicated preservationist, she charmed the General Services Administration, which is the federal landlord, and enlisted help on the Hill, including the support of Senators Daniel P. Moynihan and Mike Gravel. Hanks, for whom the new center is named, once told a committee, "Old buildings are like friends. They reassure in times of change...
...noon next day the President sat back in the deep cushions of his big closed car, adjusted his big dark Navy cape. The gravel spattered from the driveway, the car moved off slowly around the south lawn, and up the long clear stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue toward the looming dome of the Capitol...