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...gained in luster and patina from exposure to the weather, but a whole new range of materials, notably stain less steel and plastics, practically demand the reflective brilliance of sun shine. "Aluminum shines wonderfully against the greens of summer and the greys of winter," observes New York Collector Robert Scull...
Strange Firefly. Scull and his wife Ethel - whose purchases helped get pop art off the ground - have 20 works scattered across the 1½ acres of their summer home in East Hampton, L.I. "Our lawn looked naked without sculpture," says Scull; he promptly commissioned ten young unknowns to fill the space...
Their 1st century marble Bacchus was a natural for their modern atrium, but their love of the moment happens to be minimal sculpture. Scull first has wood models made, then shifts them from place to place. Sometimes he discovers delightful juxtapositions: Robert Morris' painted-aluminum square handsomely frames Mark di Suvero's tangled wood; after dark, Ben Berns' blue neon looks like a strange and lovely firefly among the hemlocks...
Robert C. Scull, collector of op, pop, and other art forms, will speak on "The Direction of Contemporary Art" at 8 p.m. tonight in the Kirkland...
...Casting of Ethel Scull" is old hat around here. Ten years or so ago, Bette and I cast our faces in plaster; I had to go first. The casting went as smooth as silk. I even posed on the kitchen floor with a lily in my hand and my face in the firm grip of a plaster mask. I didn't realize how firm a grip it was until I attempted to remove it. (We had used petroleum jelly without the benefit of Saran.) I was hung up by my hair and my eyelashes. My eyebrows pulled out without...