Letter of protest against Frank Lloyd Wright's design for the Guggenheim Museum, New York. Signed by Calvin Albert, Milton Avery, Will Barnet, Paul Bodin, Henry Botkin, Byron Browne, Herman Cherry, George Constant, Willem de Kooning, Herbert Ferber, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Seymour Lipton, Sally Michel, George L.K. Morris, Robert Motherwell, Charles Schucker, John Sennhauser, Leon P. Smith, Jack Tworkov.From the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
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Wow. DeKooning, Kline, Motherwell... This makes me understand how these guys wanted their stuff to be seen. Kline and Motherwell might actually benefit from being viewed in a box-like room since it would add a kind of frame to their big black-on-white figures.
ReplyDeleteI can understand their trepidation but I do think time has proven them wrong.
ReplyDeleteSo cool to see this because Calvin Albert was my uncle. I had no idea he knew these icons of modern art.
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