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...judgment that critics and public alike have withheld ever since Catlin exhibited his Indian studies in 1837 in New York City, in a hall that he rather grandiosely labeled the Indian Gallery. In his own day nobody of any consequence thought of him as a major painter-least of all Catlin himself. Even though he had established himself by the 1820s as a workaday miniaturist-portraitist in Philadelphia, he freely conceded that others were better at what he called "the limited and slavish branch of the arts in which I am wasting my life and substance for a bare living...
What Guston did was turn into a figurative painter in his late middle age. This need not have looked bad in itself: the human figure, in various states of smearing and dissection, had long been visible in the work of his friend Willem de Kooning. But the paintings Guston began to make in the late '60s, and first showed in 1970, looked so unlike his established work that they seemed a willful and even crass about-face. Instead of the Gustons the art world knew-abstract paintings with vaporous, knitted surfaces of pearl gray and subtle pinks, like fragments...
DIED. Isaac Soyer, 79, Russian-born painter and the youngest of three artist brothers (the others: Raphael and Moses), who shunned abstraction to portray New York street scenes and working-class people in a style of lyrical realism; in New York City...
...middle-aging enfant terrible from off-Broadway has given the Guthrie's new season its "conversation piece." Director Richard Foreman is a bit of a prankster, but he possesses a painter's eye for shaping scenes and a formidable arsenal of theatricality. He explodes one of his surprises at the very start of this revival. A thunderclap of organ music blasts through the house, sounding as though the seraphic tones of Bach had been mangled in some dungeon of the damned...
...walked on the moon in 1969, is no has-Bean. Even though he retired last month from NASA, Bean still ranks as a man of the moon. His self-appointed mission: to paint lunar landscapes. A 20-year dabbler who once imitated the apples and oranges of his favorite painters, Cezanne and Degas, Bean switched three years ago to moonscapes. His works, featuring black sky, gray ground and American lunar craft are a spacy combination of impressionism and realism. So far, he has finished six such oils and plans a show for next year. Snaps Bean: "I want...