On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 4:50 AM, William Conger <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Nearby the National Gallery Rothkos is a small -- not bigger than 3 feet -- > Bradley Walker Tomlin, tacked to the wall too near a doorway, as if it was > crowded into position by a sympathetic curator. It's an astonishing > painting, > full of risk, wild technical abandon and yet so beautifully composed, as > if it > is paint caught in the wind and rain at the most perfect moment. Of > course I've > always loved Tomlin's work since I first saw one of his paintings back > around > 1948 in the Encyclopaedia Britannica Collection. I have no idea what his > work > sells for now but I'd bet that it's well within the comfort zone of prices > we'd > expect to pay tor, say, a pricey sedan -- something sensible in the public > mind > for a fine work of art. I can appreciate the Tomlin. I can experience it > as an > artwork, a source of aesthetic pleasure and a demanding intellectual and > painterly object that has no other purpose... Is that painting among the following?: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1024&bih=631&q=tom lin+paintings&gbv=2&oq=tomlin+paintings&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=img.3...1109.3359 .0.3453.16.8.0.3.3.1.500.1407.4-2j1.3.0...0.0.8oDY9rjdhN0#hl=en&gbv=2&tbm=isc h&sa=1&q=bradley+walker+tomlin+&oq=bradley+walker+tomlin+&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l =img.3...30563.39750.0.40156.24.17.0.0.0.4.766.2562.2-1j3j1j0j1.6.0...0.0.DUl ar_kHHtY&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=22d167d82f094f90&biw=1024&bih= 631
