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...William Kienbusch...
Artists' reaction to the Baur thesis reached from surprised agreement to eloquent indignation. William Kienbusch (TIME, June 4, 1956), who sometimes uses photographs in painting nature-titled abstractions, readily admits that nature has long been an at-the-elbow companion. Says John Helicker, another abstractionist: "The best paintings I have ever done relate to the deepest feelings I have had about a place." But old-line Abstract Expressionist Adolph Gottlieb grimly dissents: "I never use nature as a starting point, I never abstract from nature, I never consciously think of nature when I paint. In the painting...
...Walton story began in London two years ago when Manhattan Book Collector Carl Otto v. Kienbusch picked up a dilapidated little volume from "a package of odds and ends from the attic of a country house." The volume was a real find-the only copy of a long-forgotten book published in 1577 on The Arte of Angling. Its title page had gone, and so had the name of its author. But its text had a distantly familiar ring. Says Princeton Professor Gerald Eades Bentley in his introduction to the Princeton University Library's republication of the book...
...reading your June 4 Publisher's Letter and understanding the good will and importance of William Honneus' color slides because of their accuracy, it grieves me greatly to have the vast number of your readers getting such an impression of the Maine coast as seen by William Kienbusch. I hope your paintings won't change the mind of the tourist who has been planning a Maine trip...
Essentially a landscape painter, Kienbusch finds that reworking nature and translating it into his own terms is the only way to get at its inner meaning and intensity. Says he: "I betray nature if I copy." In the Houston Museum of Fine Arts' Across Penobscot Bay (opposite) he shows "what it feels like on a beautiful day to look from an island across the bay. What interested me was that the space of the trees in the foreground seems to embrace the space of the bay." The starting point for The Weir and the Island, now owned by Manhattan...