Word: yukon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Modest in scale, unpretentious in theme, the paintings at Los Angeles' David Stuart Gallery last week provided a rare moment of comic relief from the outsize banality that too often passes for high seriousness in the contemporary art whirl. There were voluptuous whores and prancing dandies in rollicking Yukon saloons. An old gramophone almost visibly rocked with some long-forgotten tune of the Old West, while near by a row of hilariously curved hoofers cancanned...
...Victorian gentleman all dolled up to meet a shady lady when his rendezvous is suddenly thwarted by a policeman. One of his best series resulted when in 1967 he came across a book by Robert W. Service, whose poetry he had loved as a child. Service's Yukon saloons,^ Canadian Mounties and rootin' tootin' shoot-em-ups meshed perfectly with Copley's scampering W.C. Fields style and his love of Victoriana. The lady is often nude ("Women's bodies are very charming"), the man always clothed ("I don't find nude men charming...
Without a Net. If the discovery of Canadian women is to be the Yukon of the '70s, the credit will be due, in large part, to their saleswoman. Born in Montreal, Geneviève went through the familiar Catholic training. "For twelve years I was in a convent school," she recalls. "Everything was very comme il faut, very strict, but I remained myself." Then she was caught by one of the sisters reading a proscribed volume, Marcel Pagnol's Fanny. On the school's insistence, Geneviève made her first big exit. Soon afterward she enrolled...