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Art Day in Manhattan: Thiebaud! The Cubists! And that Crusty Old Muralist Thomas Hart Benton!

Nov 11, 2014

Filed Under: america today, art in new york, braque, cubist painters, factory, juan gris, léger, leonard lauder collection, metropolitan museum of art, old town bar, peggy reynolds, picasso, the met, thomas hart benton, warhol, wayne thiebaud

Last week I spent the day in the wilds of Manhattan to check out art with my old studio mate…

Did Picasso crib off Stuart Davis?

Aug 8, 2013

Filed Under: guernica, men without women, picasso, radio city music hall, stuart davis

Everybody knows Guernica, Picasso’s grayscale tour-de-force howl at the fascist bombing of a small Spanish town in 1937. You’d have…