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...obscurity of Thomas Pollock Anshutz (1851-1912) does not, even now, seem a great injustice of art history. He lived in Philadelphia and was Thomas Eakins' teaching assistant. Though a number of his students developed into remarkable painters (Marin and Sloan among them). Anshutz did not, and Steelworkers -Noontime (1880-82) is the one painting by which he is known: a solidly composed, tight, rather dry performance, closely observed, small in scale (17 in. by 24 in.). It is a terse comment on the nature of work, and. by implication, on the artist's role as a worker...
...speak of a "comeback" by an artist as conspicuous as Motherwell may seem odd, but it has a certain point. At 57, he is one of the last charter members of the New York School of the 1940s to remain alive and painting. Pollock, Gorky, Rothko, Kline, David Smith, Hofmann, Newman and Reinhardt are all dead, and their work has been so long discussed, labeled, ticketed and run through the meat grinder of mass art education that it has already assumed the air of an august period style-the last "heroic" American art. The absurd consequence has been that...
...also inspired some awful jokes (sample: a WPA worker sued the Government when the shovel he was leaning on broke). Still it gave eating money in hard times to some Americans who later became famous, including Actors Orson Welles and Burt Lancaster and Artists Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. Oh yes, and a fellow named Richard Nixon earned 350 an hour from the National Youth Administration, a division of the WPA, for doing research in the Duke University law library...
...were the last forms of "primitive" art to win general esteem outside their own tribal context. Only ethnologists were interested. The red man's images scarcely influenced white culture-unlike African art, whose impact on early 20th century painting was fundamental. Max Ernst collected kachina dolls, and Jackson Pollock, it is said, was interested in Navajo sand paintings; but as a rule, whether it was treated as knickknacks or, more decently, as ethnographical evidence, Indian art has languished on the fringes of white perception. The Whitney, by inviting its guest curator Norman Feder (who is in charge...
...discussion of a "cheap shot" at Dartmouth quarterback Bill Pollock by a Harvard football player last Saturday has overshadowed all other aspects of the Ivy contest, including the outcome...