42 new art works bought for FAMSF

 https://artdaily.cc/news/148047/Fine-Arts-Museums-announce-major-acquisition-of-Bay-Area-artworks

 The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco today announced the acquisition of 42 works of art by contemporary Bay Area artists. Funded with the generous support of the Svane Family Foundation, the new acquisition encapsulates the breadth of the SF arts community, illuminating the central concerns at the forefront of artistic practice in the region over the past decade, from climate change to COVID-19. The Svane initiative, helmed by Claudia Schmuckli, Curator in Charge of Contemporary Art and Programming, brings the works of 30 emerging and mid-career artists and collectives into the Fine Arts Museums’ permanent collection, reflecting the Museums’ commitment to inclusivity and the city’s vibrant arts ecology. 

“The Bay Area is home to an extraordinary cultural ecosystem, flush with talent and vision,” remarked Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. “As a proud member of this vibrant and diverse community, we are grateful to the Svane Family Foundation for its crucial support of local artists, of our fellow arts organizations, and of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The Foundation’s generous gift to the Fine Arts Museums ensures that we are able to represent the remarkable breadth and depth of the creative community working in the Bay Area today.” 

Slated for exhibition in 2023, the works will bring Bay Area artists’ creative scope and most pressing concerns to audiences at the Fine Arts Museums: among them, aesthetic strategies of survival in the face of racial injustice and endemic police violence; climate change and environmental degradation; intersectionality and the fluidity of gender; the constructed nature and legacy of US history; and the spiritual invocation of legacies and social knowledge, past, present, and future. Contributing artists are Stephanie Syjuco; Allison Smith; Chris Johanson; Clare Rojas; Katy Grannan; Chelsea Wong; Koak; Ruby Neri; Maria A. Guzman Capron; Daisy May Sheff; Christiane Lyons; Wesaam Al-Badry; Guillermo Galindo; Sahar Khoury; Muzae Sesay; Woody De Othello; David Huffman; Postcommodity; Miguel Arzabe; Saif Azzuz; Rupy C. Tut; Sydney Cain; Rashaad Newsome; Ramekon O’Arwisters; Angela Hennessey; Ana Teresa Fernández; Liz Hernández; Demetri Broxton; Kota Ezawa; and Sadie Barnette. 

“The Svane gift is a snapshot of the artistic energy that abounds in the Bay Area,” noted Schmuckli. “Over time, the acquisition developed organically into thematic sections that reflect the issues artists here are grappling with at this very moment, including San Francisco’s own legacy of radical social consciousness and the threat that widespread gentrification poses to such independent thought. When considering artists’ work, I prioritized excellence in vision and craft and our long-standing commitment to equity, inclusivity, and diversity in our collections and exhibitions.” 

Established in 2019 by Zendesk Founder and CEO Mikkel Svane, the Svane Family Foundation earmarked $1 million in 2021 to support the Fine Arts Museums’ acquisition. Working with 13 galleries across San Francisco and five out-of-state, and directly with three artists without gallery representation, Schmuckli identified the 42 artworks that advance the Museums’ long-standing commitments to community and to bolstering the success of emerging and underrepresented artists. Of the 30 artists whose work is slated to enter the permanent collection, more than half are women and the majority are people of color. Their work will be shown together in the exhibition opening in 2023 in the de Young museum’s galleries of modern and contemporary art. 

Dede Wilsey Steps down

Well, maybe a little step but she is still here and powerful:  https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/art-exhibits/dede-wilsey-to-step-down-as-president-of-the-sf-fine-arts-museums

DailyDose of Diebenkorn

https://art.famsf.org/richard-diebenkorn

Wilsey triumphs again

No real surprises here. I just hope the new director can prevent any further excesses of the Empress Dede..

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/After-power-struggle-Dede-Wilsey-prevails-at-9298010.php

Dede Wilsey steps down....maybe

Courtesy NY Times

While Ms. Wilsey has done a lot for the museums, she has also demanded a lot back - venturing from the role of Chairwoman of the Board to autocratic ruler. It looks like she is stepping down from that position but the reluctance of any to comment shows how much power she still holds.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/arts/design/board-president-dede-wilsey-leaving-top-spot-fine-arts-museums.html?smid=tw-share

The last few years have been tumultous ones at the FAMSF with the unexpected firing of respected curator Lynn Orr and a number of financial scandals along with Ms Wilsey's giving several of the de Young's prime ground floor galleries to show her son's mediocre photography collection.

Lynn Orr: Since January, each morning visitors to the venerable Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco line up to catch the newest star attraction, Vermeer’s enigmatic painting “Girl With the Pearl Earring,” on the first stop in its American tour.

The article on the firing of Ms Orr during the successful run of Dutch masterpieces at the de Young. "Yet Lynn Orr, the curator who helped arrange this exhibition coup, is not on hand to see its success. In November she was abruptly fired after 29 years, a departure that is one in a series of unsettling developments that have turned what are among the most popular museums west of the Mississippi into objects of contention and anxiety." In 2012, the Legion of Honor's "let go" curator Lynn Orr in an unceremonious and unexplained fashion. . The museum has been leaderless since since its late director, John Buchanan, died at the end of 2011 and plagued with more than its share of problems.
Orr, a brilliant and widely respected curator of European art, hasn't been at work since Nov. 20, and although no one is saying why, colleagues fear she's been given the ax.

"When contacted, Orr declined to comment. A museum board meeting, scheduled for December, has been postponed until March 2013."

http://hyperallergic.com/70126/whats-going-on-at-the-sf-fine-arts-museums/

http://cheznamastenancy.blogspot.com/2012/12/has-lynn-orr-curator-for-famsf-been.html

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/csp/mediapool/sites/PressDemocrat/News/story.csp?cid=2502659&sid=555&fid=181

Trevor Trania and his photography collection showcased at the de Young: From my blog in the 2012 wrap up of “the good, the bad and the ugly.” http://cheznamastenancy.blogspot.com/2012_12_01_archive.html

"The ugly was the most blatant example of nepotism ever seen in San Francisco's checkered art history. In fact, it was so blatant that every art writer in the Bay Area commented on it."

"Several of the de Young's prime, first floor galleries hosted a mediocre exhibit of photographs, belonging to Trevor Traina, a member of high society, collector wanna-be and FAMSF board trustee. He is the son of the president of the board, Dede Wilsey. Enough said."

Report on that from Sura Wood: http://www.ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=general&article=196


From my blog in 2013: http://cheznamastenancy.blogspot.com/2013/03/bay-guardian-has-goods-on-dede-wilsey.html

More on the back ground of her controversial payment to an “ailing staffer.” http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/S-F-Fine-Arts-Museums-chief-Dede-Wilsey-accused-6575346.php

Leading German museum director, Max Hollein, chosen to head the FAMSF

looks like the museum has hired somebody with a wonderful reputation - hope he can handle the politics. 

http://www.examiner.com/article/leading-german-museum-director-max-hollein-chosen-to-head-the-famsf?CID=examiner_alerts_article

Colin Bailey to leave the FAMSF for a position at the Morgan

They made him an offer he couldn't refuse:

http://www.examiner.com/article/colin-bailey-to-leave-fine-arts-museums-of-san-francisco-for-the-morgan?CID=examiner_alerts_article

Did this kind of behavior aid Bailey in his decision to leave?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/16/arts/design/turmoil-at-fine-arts-museums-of-san-francisco.html 

Nobody says no to Dede...

http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/why-cant-anyone-say-no-dede-wilsey 

Culture Grrl is surprised (I'm surprised that she's surprised - pretty clear from early on that this was not a good "marriage." ) Bailey did a lot of good things in a short time; let's hope his replacement does as well. http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2015/04/bailey-bails-philippe-leaps-big-surprises-at-fine-arts-museums-of-san-francisco-and-hispanic-society-of-america.html

The FAMSF and Guidekick partner to create a mobile app guide to SF

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) has announced their partnership with Guidekick, a start up company that creates pocket sized, mobile app guides. Their first San Francisco based project will be to create a guide to Golden Gate Park, which will include nearly 150 points of interest, The de Young Museum is included as well as the California Academy of Sciences, the Japanese Tea Garden and the San Francisco Botanical Garden.

 Cliff House

 Sutro Baths

The 3-D images look like what you would expect - very sterile but the wealth of history and other info makes this worth a $1.99 download from i Tunes. As it is, people are fixated on their cell phones so they might as well get some real info while they are obsessing at the tiny screen.

http://www.examiner.com/article/the-famsf-and-guidekick-partner-to-create-a-moblie-guide-to-sf

'Houghton Hall; Portrait of an English Country House' at the Legion of Honor

Have you ever dreamed of living in a sumptuous English country estate, being served tea by a liveried footman, going to grand balls and sleeping in 4-poster beds, covered with rare Chinese silk? The current exhibit at the Legion of Honor, "Houghton Hall; Portrait of an English Country House" should satisfy even the most avid lover of Downtown Abbey and of a particular kind of very upper class, very elite English life style.

 Velázquez, Pope Innocent X, Detail from the National Gallery, Washington

Houghton Hall brings to San Francisco a wonderful array of objects from one of Britain’s great country houses, and reflects the history of this magnificent estate across nearly 300 years, from the 18th century to the present day. The show features more than 100 pieces from the estate, including old-master paintings from their once-lost collection, Sèvres porcelain, and pieces from the eighteenth-century interiors and furniture designed by William Kent.

Lady Sybil Sassoon, Lady Cholmondeley by Sargent

 More at: http://www.examiner.com/article/houghton-hall-portrait-of-an-english-country-house-opens-at-the-legion

The Bay Area Art World in 2013 - hits and misses.

It's that time of year again when I list my picks for the good, the bad and the ugly. Naturally, I realize that a show that I give 10 stars is somebody else's flop. But to each his or her own.

Jay De Feo. The Rose.

http://www.examiner.com/article/the-bay-area-art-world-2013-hits-and-misses

Anglin Burgard and 'Richard Diebenkorn, The Berkeley Years"

"This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Timothy Anglin Burgard, the co-curator of "Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953-66." The exhibition opens Saturday, June 22 at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, where it is on view through September 29. The exhibition catalogue — which includes full-page plates of many Berkeley-era paintings not in the exhibition — is published by Yale University Press. Burgard, Steven A. Nash and Emma Acker contributed three of the best catalogue essays I’ve read this year. If you are interested in 20th-century painting, this book needs to be in your library." Tyler Green.

"Burgard is the curator of American art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. He has organized exhibitions on Enrico Donati, Frank Lobdell and Stephen De Staebler."

"These are three Diebenkorns that Burgard discusses with MAN Podcast host Tyler Green on this week’s show, examples of how Burgard believes figurative painting sometimes informed Diebenkorn’s abstractions. At top is a Diebenkorn drawing in ink from 1953. Burgard thinks that the two 1954 paintings below it — Untitled (Nude) and Berkeley #3 — were informed by the drawing. The research and findings Burgard discusses on this week’s MAN Podcast suggest that at least for Diebenkorn, there was no such thing as ‘purely abstract’ painting."

http://manpodcast.com/post/53454774917/this-weeks-modern-art-notes-podcast

Pied Piper returns, new director for the FAMSF? and changes filed against the thief who stole the Gold Rush era jewelry box from the OMC.

It's been a busy day in Bay Area art news.

The good news is that the iconic Maxfield Parrish painting "The Pied Piper" will not be sold and is returning to the Palace Hotel after a professional cleaning in NY. I cannot imagine what the oweners were thinking. The chain that owns the Palace is obscenely rich; surely they didn't think they could remove an iconic piece of SF history without an outcry. Plus, it was in a bar and not exactly invisible.

http://www.examiner.com/article/parish-s-painting-of-the-pied-piper-returns-to-the-palace-hotel

Secondly, the rumour is out that the FAMSF are going to announce their new director at this Wednesday's press meeting. Lee Rosenbaum announced the news in her blog on March 17th and named Colin Bailey, current director of the Frick as the candidate.

The museum has been drawing in record crowds and has the fourth-highest museum attendance in North America. But in a report last year, San Francisco budget analyst Harvey Rose raised critical questions about how the Fine Arts Museums, the M. H. de Young in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, are run. He said the public board did not sufficiently oversee the museums' finances or assets or discuss those finances in a "public or transparent manner," ceding that authority to the private nonprofit that operates the museums, the Corporation for the Fine Arts Museums.

The institution has been beset by bitter labor negotiations; the firing of longtime staffers, including the esteemed veteran curator of European art, Lynn Orr; and criticism of the board of trustees, particularly its powerful president, Dede Wilsey.

Bailey holds a D.Phil. in Art History from the University of Oxford. A specialist in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French art and has a long line of publications and honors to his credit. He hasn't made any comment but if he is "the one" good luck to him. I will be looking forward to positive changes during his tenure.

From the Mercury News: 

A federal charge of stealing an object of cultural heritage from a museum has been filed against a parolee who is suspected of taking a Gold Rush-era jewelry box valued at $805,000 from the Oakland Museum of California on Jan. 9, authorities said Tuesday.

The federal complaint against Andre Taray Franklin, 45, of Hayward, was filed Friday in U.S. District Court. Franklin was already in the custody of state authorities, held on a charge of possession of stolen property in connection with the burglary.
It is believed the state case against Franklin will soon be dropped so the federal prosecution can begin.

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_22824033/federal-charge-filed-against-suspect-oakland-museum-jewelry
http://www.ktvu.com/photo/news/local/andre-franklin-arrested-oakland-museum-theft/ppgqn/http://www.ktvu.com/photo/news/local/andre-franklin-arrested-oakland-museum-theft/ppgqn/

The thief sold the artifact for peanuts: http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Oakland-museum-s-stolen-artifact-sold-cheap-4368780.php

A new director for the FAMSF?

Rumours abond but given the amount of press coverage during the last week and the press invite for next Wednesday at the de Young, I am guessing that we will soon have the answer.

2012, Bay Area art in review: the good, the bad and the ugly.

This is the time of year when all the newspapers trot out all the lists of that's good in some field (art, music, film, theater). They are usually numbered by 10, 10 best, 10 worst, 10 so on and so forth.

The Bay Area had more than its share of both but three events stand out - what might be called, for lack of a better phrase, "the good, the bad and the ugly."

The good was SFMOMA's tribute to Jay DeFeo.

When Jay DeFeo died in 1989, at age sixty, she was at the height of her creative powers. Despite her iconic status as the creator of the monumental painting “The Rose,” she was little known outside a small circle of art insiders. Her whole body of work had remained largely unknown.

Comprising more than 130 works, “Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective" brings together the artist's paintings, drawings, photographs, collages, small sculptures, and jewelry designs—most of which have not been seen in decades or have never been exhibited before.

The ugly was the most blatant example of nepotism ever seen in San Francisco's checkered art history. In fact, it was so blatant that every art writer in the Bay Area commented on it.

Several of the de Young's prime, first floor galleries hosted a mediocre exhibit of photographs, belonging to Trevor Traina, a member of high society, collector wanna-be and FAMSF board trustee. He is the son of the president of the board, Dede Wilsey. Enough said.

The bad was the Legion of Honor's unceremonious and unexplained firing or rather, "letting go" of curator Lynn Orr. The museum has been leaderless since since its late director, John Buchanan, died at the end of 2011 and plagued with more than its share of problems.

Orr, a brilliant and widely respected curator of European art, hasn't been at work since Nov. 20, and although no one is saying why, colleagues fear she's been given the ax.

When contacted, Orr declined to comment. A museum board meeting, scheduled for December, has been postponed until March 2013.

http://www.examiner.com/article/2012-bay-area-art-review-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly

It's the end of the world and I feel just fine

The Internet is buzzing with rumors of the end of the world. Depending on which doomsday-monger that you read, things will go boom or bang or maybe just end with a gigantic whisper.

Details are vague, ranging from annihilation from a rogue comet, a giant solar storm or an invasion of the Daleks without Dr. Who's traditional intervention.

Mayans themselves reject any notion that the world will end. For them, it is the end of one long count calendar and the beginning of another.

But if the world was ending in three days, what would I do? I'd spend the time viewing as much art as possible.

http://www.examiner.com/article/what-to-view-while-waiting-for-the-end-of-the-world

Has Lynn Orr, curator for the FAMSF, been fired?

Today's SF Gate brought the following news about Lynn Orr, the curator of European art who has been MIA since October. Apparently she's been fired but nobody is saying anything.  I haven't heard anything via the various news sources that I subscribe to.This is when I wish I was a real journalist and had the cred to call the museum and ask all the right questions.  If this is true, it's a real tragedy for the museum; she put together the most wonderful shows and was always nice and helpful to us "lowly" bloggers.

 http://www.sfgate.com/art/articleComments/Rumors-fly-about-curator-shakeup-at-FAM-4097452.php

Royal Treasures from the Louvre; Louis XIV to Marie-Antoinette

If you like French object d'art, this is the show for you. Decorative, Rococo, silk, satin, gold, jewels - it's the life style of an aristocracy and an haute bourgeoise who had taste and used their money to indulge it.

Frugality was not their métier.

Unfortunately, the last couple certainly were lacking in political savvy.

Marie-Antoinette was not cut out to be a queen and neither was her husband. They are both examples of what happens when the hereditary monarch is not suited to rule. 

Louis wasn't that dumb but he was very timid and shy, more interested in hunting and making clocks than governing. Marie was married at 14 to a husband who could not consummate the marriage for 7 years (possibly a too tight foreskin). 

Interesting page here about his possible phimosis: http://www.historyofcircumcision.net/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=78

She wasn't very smart about politics. It too years for her to have a child (which the French blamed her for). The French journalists totally trashed her reputation, accusing her of everything from being a lesbian to having an incestuous relationship with her own son (8 years old at the time). 

Neither of them was capable of handling France's financial problems, partially caused by a huge debt incurred through their support of the American revolution. BTW, we never paid them back.

 

http://www.examiner.com/article/royal-treasures-from-the-louvre-louis-xiv-to-marie-antoinette-at-the-legion

Possible Strike at the FAMSF

Possible strike at the Museums: Cristal Java, a chief negotiator with the union, said talks with the Corporation of Fine Arts Museums, which runs the museums, have dragged on for nine months. She said workers are angry that the museums have seen an increase of $19.6 million in assets over the past two years while proposing to reduce wages for future hires and raise health care costs.

"They are proposing a health care plan that is more expensive for union workers than highly paid management," Java said. "It would be one thing if they were struggling, but they're not struggling."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Museum-union-votes-to-OK-strike-3767337.php#ixzz23RvTOMlq

'Gifts from the Gods: Art and the Olympic Ideal' at the Legion

Pindar wrote:

But if, my heart, you wish to sing of contests, look no further for any star warmer than the sun, shining by day through the lonely sky, and let us not proclaim any contest greater than Olympia. From there glorious song enfolds the wisdom of poets...

The Greeks sacrificed 100 oxen to Zeus in honor of the games. I suspect that contemporary opening ceremonies and rituals are comparably expensive.  The Greeks also competed sans clothing: I wouldn't mind that being revived for the Olympics!

Wreath. Greek, Hellenistic period, 4th–3rd century BC
Gold. Albert Campbell Hooper Memorial Purchase. Photograph © FAMSF

Gifts from the Gods: Art and the Olympic Ideal now showing at the Legion presents a selection of works from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s permanent collection supplemented by loans of antiquities.

Eric Gill (British, 1882–1940). The Tennis Player, 1923. Wood engraving
Gift of Pamela Forbes. Photograph © FAMSF

Celebrating the Olympian ideal, the exhibition features ancient Greek and Roman coinage, contemporary work from artists including Robert Mapplethorpe, Diane Arbus and Alex Katz, advertising labels, and a variety of sculptures, works on paper, antiquities, and textiles.

The show is charming and it was a delight to see the Hellenistic wreath again which I remember from the old de Young Museum.

Looking at images on coins without being able to pick them up is not easy. While the historical background is fascinating, the small images are difficult to make out as they must (of necessity) be seen through a glass case.

 Walter Camp's Book of College Sports, 1893. Color lithograph
Printed by Armstrong and Co. Ltd., Boston. Bequest of Arthur W. Barney. Photograph © FAMSF

But the modern art, posters and wide variety of contemporary and local media are superb. I tend to forget about graphic artists like Eric Gill and the poster from Walter Camp's book of College Sports was charming.

Images courtesy FAMSF/photographer Andrew Fox
legionofhonor.org

Pindar quote from: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0162%3Abook%3DO.%3Apoem%3D1

Weekend Picks: Intersection, Crown Pt Press, San Jose, Stephen Wolf Fine Arts

Everybody is all excited about the Sherman exhibit which I am still thinking throug. Actually, I liked the "other" exhibit on the 4th floor better. For me, "Stage Presence," was far fresher, exciting, fun and engaging. Stage Presence shines a spotlight on theatricality in the art of the last 30 years, presenting works in various media that defy the traditional divide between the visual and the performing arts. The notion of performance appears here in a range of guises, from the camp spectacle and subversive humor of 1980s works. I ran into Mike Strickland, blogger of Civic Center fame (link on side bar) and for once, we agreed.

Source: http://www.sfmoma.org/exhib_events/exhibitions/457#ixzz20SSQG1el San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

 Eric Stall. Citroen installation

Intersection for the Arts: "Motion Graphics: In and Beyond the Street," a group exhibition that looks at a diverse range of street art and the practice underlying social engagement and artistic work in the public sphere.

The work is uneven. One wall piece looks like the flying spaghetti monster met Chef Boy-Ar-Dee but the video of artists working in the Tenderloin is very good. A couple of the pieces were graphically interesting but their connection with the exhibition theme escaped me. Unfortunately, I lost my notes so I'm typing from memory - and obviously the memory isn't what it used to be. http://theintersection.org/

Penelope Houston, Untitled. image courtesy Steven Wolf Fine Arts.

Steven Wolf Fine Arts: This show takes a look at the colliding worlds as punk musicians made art and artists made music. I was never into the punk scene - working too hard, for one thing. But two of my favorite actors, Alan Rickman and Donal Logue are shooting a film about the famous (or infamous) NY club CGBG. Apparently the club, long defunct, just had an anniversary, which made the show doubly interesting. www.stevenwolffinearts.com.

Elmer Bischoff’s Two Women in Vermillion Light (1959)

The San Jose Museum of Art: "Local Color" highlights works by such artists as Alexander Calder, Elmer Bischoff, David Levinthal, Nathan Oliveira, Anne Appleby, and Richard Misrach. Drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection, Local Color explores the role of color in art and encourage visitors to look at color as content.
The exhibition comprises approximately 50 paintings, photographs, sculptures, and prints spanning the last six decades.

“Color may be a vehicle for pure pleasure, for shaping the rhythm of a composition, or for invoking a particular emotional tone,” said Rory Padeken, curatorial assistant at SJMA and curator of the exhibition. “This exhibition looks at the primacy of color in works that range from Calder’s whimsical mobiles to Bischoff’s luscious, light-filled canvas to Levinthal’s slick, saturated photographs of Barbie dolls. Visitors will also see works in which artists consider nuances of black and white.”
www.SanJoseMuseumofArt.org.

Speaking of black and white, check out the current exhibit at Crown Point Press which is a celebration of their collaboration with Chuck Close. The Press, recognized for its importance as a print workshop specializing in etching, celebrates the 50th anniversary of its founding by Kathan Brown in 1962.

Chuck Close made his first print, the landmark mezzotint Keith, at the press 10 years later in 1972, breaking artistic ground for the photo-realist artist and initiating a long relationship with the Press. The Fine Arts Museums enters its third decade as the recipient of editioned prints from the Press since its 1991 acquisition of the Crown Point archive; there are now more than 1,500 Crown Point Press-published prints in the collection.

This exhibition in the Anderson gallery shows the development of Close’s printmaking style at the Press from a tonal process that was akin to his photorealist tendencies to linear mark-making and exposition of the transfer grid that became the hallmark of his painting in the 1970s. http://www.crownpoint.com/