Word: rutman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much as any. He complained about his second strip when United Feature sketched in a black eye Patty gave Charlie. Recently, United objected to the Peanuts sequence in which Linus' blanket attacks the other Peanuts. "That's monster stuff," complained United Feature's President Laurence Rutman, who prevailed on Schulz to abandon eight strips. "It's not the real you." In retaliation, Schulz bought a baby blanket, drew a monster on it saying "Boo!" and sent it to Rutman. Replied Rutman in a thank-you note: "It's chasing me around the office...
...Henry Schwarz's "Gothic Man in an Atomic Age," a review of paintings by Robert Rutman and Jack Wickline at the Dumbarton Gallery, The Weekly Review, October...
Having seen the show, I agree that the paintings offer little beyond the purely decorative. In this respect, they are, to a varying degree, successful. This has been, however, characteristic of American art during the wane of abstract expressionism. It is insufficient cause for accusing Mr. Rutman of artistic impotence. To ask, "Why do such galleries exist?" on the basis of one displeasing show, is simple-minded provincialism...
...painting pure abstracts, he can't validly title them with anything more than numbers. If he is an impressionist of any sort, he should have some idea of what he is painting before it is painted and out drying behind the barn. Knocking art academies is folly. Mr. Rutman has never been to one. How he can fail to see the inherent value of formal art training and criticism is inconceivable. Mr. Rutman's actual complaint is that the museums refuse to replace their restored masterpieces with his red blotches...
Whatever his complaint, it doesn't matter. The point is only that Mr. Rutman, along with the man who runs the gallery, is not an artist. Worse than that, people are theoretically going in and paying money for his blobs and craters. Mr. Wickline's artform, which is paint splashed on layers and levels of sand, burlap, and reindeer moss, offers no solution. The titles of his displayed works are "Entourage," "Into Night," "Still Night," "Quiet Harbor," "Impending," "Dusk, Autumn," and "Dawn Spring," all captured by odd strips and lumps of color in black backgrounds...