Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worst fate an artist can suffer, late in life, is being famous for a single work. The worst after death is oblivion. Grant Wood (1881-1942), the American regionalist painter whose retrospective of 84 drawings, prints and paintings opened last week at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, suffered both. There was a time when millions of Americans who would never have looked inside a museum knew, from reproduction, one painting of Wood's, American Gothic: he with the pitchfork and faded bibbed overalls, she of the dowdy mien and disapproving eye, in front...
...Midwest in the '30s than Margaret Bourke-White's camera, but there are no photographs of Eden. This show allows us to see what Wood's assets were: mainly, the deep lyricism rising from his certainty that he had discovered a vein of imagery no other painter had mined...
Without making exaggerated claims for her subject, Corn has restored a missing fragment of the American imagination. Wood was not a great painter, but he epitomized some deep-struck hopes and illusions, and he deserves understanding. This will be a popular show, and it should...
...Excerpt "Painter Richard Lindner said of himself, 'I am a tourist everywhere, which means an "observer." ' Once the emigre rec onciled himself or herself to this position as observer, life became too interesting to lament that if one was a tourist everywhere, one was at home nowhere. Erich Kahler did not learn English until he was close to 50, yet he wrote many works in that language. In 1954 Kahler received a note from his fellow Princetonian the matchlessly resilient Einstein about the persecution of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Einstein understood the American's predicament...
...their narration, Brownlow and Gill say the footage they recovered and lovingly shaped into a scholarly and joyous television show is akin to finding the sketch books of a great painter. They are right. What is wrong is that no U.S. television distributor has as yet agreed to broadcast the work. But the series will be on view at New York City's Museum of Broadcasting July 12-16. It is worth any amount of trouble to examine the treasures these raiders of the lost film cans have found...