Word: needlepoints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...galleries and moves on to those devoted to the present, he has a sense of having been there before. The descendants of Marcel Duchamps' "readymades"-a bicycle wheel, a bottle rack, a urinal, all shown just as they are, but out of context -are everywhere. Arthur Dove used needlepoint, some old shingles, and a page from the Concordance to evoke the essence of Grandmother, just as Edith Schloss uses worn and faded materials for her nostalgic Dow Road and Stephan Durkee for his affecting Sale. The futurists' obsession with the automobile finds its echo in the car constructions...
...Trout & Needlepoint. In his rare moments of repose. Beedle Smith was a warm man of catholic tastes. He was an admitted raconteur, a passionate hunter and trout fisherman (he made his own skillfully fashioned rods), a talented chess and bridge player, and a voracious reader who wolfed Rider Haggard and Joseph Conrad along with the military classics. He was also an unabashed needlepoint craftsman and the grower of prize roses. But it was his job, and especially his military job, that always absorbed him. His merciless schedule eventually broke Smith's health. Last week Beedle Smith died...