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...museums, including Manhattan's Metropolitan, own Lawrence Kupferman's precise drypoints of decaying Victorian mansions. So far as Kupferman is concerned, these pictures are just museum pieces now. At 39, he bubbles with a new enthusiasm-making abstract paintings of crawling sea life. They hardly looked like the work of the same man. Exhibited in Manhattan last week, the paintings nonetheless showed the same craftsmanship he once lavished on academic art. Kupferman had changed horses in midstream and done it with the dexterity of a circus rider. The question...
...Kupferman himself is no scientist. The son of an Austrian cigarmaker, he put himself through art school by soda-jerking in Boston's North Station, and graduated to become a guard in the Boston Museum (which now owns several of his works). Kupferman drinks coffee by the potful in order to keep painting far into the night. He spends his days teaching and banging the brasses for modern art. "I used to be an introvert," he confesses, "but now I even talk to people on streetcars...
...Germanic Museum. Turner's line drawings are notable for their simplicity and sharpness, and their effective use of contrast, while his watercolors are no less excellent. Samuel M. Greene, another exhibitor, was a former Harvard student and instructor. The other members are King Coffin, Richard deMenocal, Laurence Kupferman, Arthur Louges, and Elizabeth Titcomb. Current guest artists' are John Gregory, Diane Nemerov, and Alphonso Ossorio...