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Isaacs, a personal friend of Pollock, bought the recovered painting from the painter...
Wolfe seems to know virtually nothing about the history of art, American or European. What sort of mind could describe the reserved and cultivated Georges Braque as "a Montmartre boho of the primitive sort" who "waited for his old comrade Picasso's imminent collapse as a painter and a human being...
...consistent reading in a library. To nail the dozens of elementary howlers in his text would require almost as many pages as The Painted Word takes. One example will do for all. Wolfe on social-realist art in the '30s: "Even Franz "Kline, the abstract painter's abstract painter, was dutifully cranking out paintings of unemployed Negroes, crippled war veterans and the ubiquitous workers with open blue workshirts and necks wider than their heads." In fact, he never painted such pictures. Either Wolfe is making them up, or he cannot distinguish between Franz Kline and Ben Shahn...
Sometime before July 1, Harvard and Radcliffe are going to have to hire a painter to set the record straight for prospective students wandering into Byerly Hall...
Died. Dame Barbara Hepworth, 72, British abstract sculptor; in a fire that ravaged her studio at St. Ives, Cornwall. A fellow traveler with the small band of venturesome Britons-including Sculptor Henry Moore and her second husband, Painter Ben Nicholson-who pioneered abstract art in the 1930s, Hepworth established her trademark in 1931 when she pierced a hole in a small carving to seize the viewer's eye. "I thought it was a small miracle," she later recalled. "A new vision was opened." Holes and hollows, sometimes painted to accentuate their depth, turned up in most...