Hi! I really can't spend much time here. I lose more than hgalf of 5 days a week to doctors, clinics and hospital procedures. I am not getting better, overall, but I am not getting worse, either. Thereare various chances in the future. All of them are risky, and some of them will have to be taken one after the other.
I have finally figures out how to show any comment anyone sends here. I think I didn't get there in time and some disappeared. I will try not to let that happen.
Nothing has happened with me in gallery going, because I haven't gone.
I did get a privately printed book of Louis Finkelstein's writings which I intend to read. I also get cards with images of artist's work on them. One from a gallery in New Jersey had a landscape by Harold Bruder on it. I think it is the best thing of his I have ever seen.
Otherwise I have been getting art world crap in all the mailings. It is important not to mention names negatively, if possible because it all becomes useful for sales.
Now and then I think about past conversations. I can remember Sidney Tillim's idea of what I called Little men's marching and chinese chowder group, after an organization Barnaby's flying godfather belonged to.[Barnaby was a strip in PM and the Compass I believe when I was much younger].
The group included both Lennart and Leland. One day, Leland made it clear that he despised both Lennart and Degas. I don't know why it was important to him, but it does show that serious people cutting against the art world tide could disagree violently. Actually I didn't much like it, but I liked them both and I also like Degas. The big Degas show at the Met was a great show if you started at the end and worked backward until you no longer like the work. He actually became a great artist, but he started off as a very talented academically trained one, influenced by Manet. Look at the work starting with Cassatt in the hat shop. Except for unfinished paintings, signed with the auction stamp, the paintings and pastels from that point forward are all wonderful. But I do think that much of the earlier work is problematic.
Love,
Gabriel
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