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Rothko’s subjects in these early pictures are predominantly people, many in interaction with elements of the city—the subway or the street—and some still lifes. Perhaps best known is “Self Portrait” (1936). Bordered by a rich warm...
The seven images in the show consist of five large portraits and two very large still lifes. Under dim lighting (important to their preservation) the grass canvases seem to glow gently. At the request of the artists, only five visitors at a time are allowed into the show. Whether this...
DIED. REX T. BARBER, 84, above right, World War II U.S. fighter pilot given partial credit for shooting down the plane carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the strategist of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, in a famed 1943 ambush; in Terrebonne, Oregon. For 28 years the Air Force gave sole...
On the face of it, Thiebaud, 81, is a Realist. He loves material fact, with a preference for inertia. He started off in the 1960s painting gorgeously lush still lifes of kitsch diner food--everything from hot dogs to angel-food cake and gumballs. Then he turned to painting people...
Ablow turned to painting still lifes after early unsuccessful bouts with epic scenes of Greek mythology. After receiving his M.A. in Art History at Harvard in 1955, painting still lifes offered him the attraction of “studying the visible world within a controlled and concentrated situation.?...