You remind me;
During the depression I drew cartoons in grammar school that I sold
for .03 cents each,
that I would gladly pay 100 dollars to get them back. I'm sure they
were eventually thrown away.
mando
On Oct 17, 2008, at 7:56 AM, William Conger partially wrote:
Of many examples, I think of Joseph Yoakum, a Chicago resident, who
was "discovered" in the late 1960s. He sold is work for 50 cents
apiece or gave it away. Now one of his better drawings will fetch
on average more than $10,000. These drawings were made one per day
with ball-point pen on butcher paper and colored with show polish
(he was a show-shine man when he began drawing -- as a daily
prayer, he said -- at age 75. But these works require major paper
conservation to keep them from crumbling.
.
WC
--- On Fri, 10/17/08, Chris Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Chris Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: National Portrait Gallery
To: [email protected]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Friday, October 17, 2008, 8:51 AM
I've never been to the National Portrait Gallery -- but
I do know someone who
was selected to make a portrait for it - actually, several
of them.
She had never sold a portrait before and only began making
them after she
qualified for social security. She never had a teacher, and
had no interest in
museums, so she was a complete outsider to anything like an
art tradition.
But she was not an outsider so far as the donor was
concerned - they had been
business associates - and I'm sure he got a very good
price.
Of course miracles can happen, and it is always possible
that we might
recognize her work as an outstanding achievement.
But if you have any interest in a concept of art education
or connoisseurship
- you might allow that the chances for that are slim,
and you might have to agree that the National Portrait
Gallery is not
currently cultivating the arts of portraiture.
**********
Have you ever been there? If so, I can't imagine even
you making such a dumb
statement. If not, go, humbly, and wash a few cinders from
your eyes.
WC
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