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...ever used more of the vital energies of the imagination than Ryder," wrote Marsden Hartley in 1936, "and no one was ever truer to his experience . . . One finds his elements so perfectly true that even the moon herself must recognize them if she had time to look." For Jackson Pollock, in 1944, "the only American master who interests me is Ryder." From Andrew Wyeth and Morris Graves in the 1940s to Bill Jensen today, Ryder influenced or at least had some talismanic value for a striking number of Americans who had nothing else in common...
RICHARD POUSETTE-DART: A RETROSPECTIVE, Indianapolis Museum of Art. Overshadowed by such contemporaries as De Kooning and Pollock, the pioneering Abstract Expressionist Pousette-Dart, 74, is here done belated and handsome justice. Through...
...Museum of Art, is -- quite apart from its intrinsic qualities -- a sobering reminder of how edited a picture of art history New York City's museums have lately been giving their public. Here is an American artist of real distinction, now 74, a contemporary of De Kooning, Rothko and Pollock, with whom he appeared in the famous photo of The Irascibles, the cast of Abstract Expressionism, in LIFE magazine in 1951. Nevertheless, he has virtually been dropped from the history of the New York School. At most, Pousette-Dart has had a sentence or two (and not always that...
Pousette-Dart has always had his following, of course, and in any case it would be idle to put his early work in the '40s and '50s on the same level as De Kooning's or Pollock's. He certainly shared the early Abstract Expressionist interest in primitive art, totems, archetypal forms. And its general legacy from '30s Picasso too: Pousette-Dart's Portrait of Pegeen, 1943 (the subject was the deeply neurotic teenage daughter of Peggy Guggenheim, his dealer), is heavily dependent on Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror. There is also a scary Expressionist insight to the chaotic...
...deLone and Henikoff (H) d. Vogel and Kim (B), 6-2, 6-3; 2. Pollock and Minkus (H) d. McGuire and Manning (B) 7-5, 7-5; 3. Ison and Detwiler (B) d. McNabb and Ettus...