Louis Stern Fine Arts

Appreciation I met Samella Lewis in my senior year at Scripps College, as 1 was preparing to go to graduate school in art history at Columbia University. Three years of humanities and art history courses had given me a solid foundation, yet all but one focused on European culture. Had 1 studied...

Detail plate 7 BODY LANDSCAPE FROM THE HUDSON RIVER SERJES 19B0, oil on paper ACKNOWLEDGMENT I have long been aware of Dorothy Canrning Miller's cantributions to the American art scene. Her mid-twentieth century exhibitions at MDMA, spanning 1912 through 1963, introduced 9Q contemporary...

FILL UPTHE SPACE AND DON'T MESS AROUND By Suzanne Muchnic Karl Benjamin makes art by the rules, his rules, but he can't quite account for the intuitive insight that creeps into his paintings. Or for the magical relationships that are sparked by exactly the right colors and shapes. To this...

Scene of a Dream, 1961 (pl.l9) "Sometimes there are forms that have been inspired by photographs of architecture and often I don't remember where they have come from or I couldn't find the actual photograph again, but it's just that I have been intrigued by the way the light flows through a tree...

At the age of seventy-one years. Lueien Clergue still remembers these words, passed along to him by a col- league decades ago 'The artist is born complex and tries his whole life to simplify and the amateur is born simple and tries to complicate everything."1 Clergue has maintained thai,...

Preface and Appreciation This exhibifion came about as the direct result of my first visit to Budapest, Hungary. The purpose of this trip was personal. I was visiting relatives, intent on seeing a cousin whom I had met for the first time during his visit to Los Angeles in the summer of...