The Art of Survival by A E Maxwell

Author:A E Maxwell
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Ecology, Nature, Fiddler (Fictitious Character), Fiora (Fictitious Character), Mystery & Detective, General, Self-Help, Fiction
ISBN: 9780061041150
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1989-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

Other reaction was less enthusiastic. "We didn't need the canvas as much as the West Coast interests did," said Arthur Desmond, curator of American paintings at the Whitney Museum, one of the unsuccessful bidders in the informal auction. "We dropped out when that became apparent. Their bidding had nothing to do with art."

I hunted through the paper for the continuation of the story and found it under a three-column photo of the skull taken the night of its unveiling in Santa Fe. The photo had been tightly cropped, but in one corner Olin Nickelaw smiled broadly. I wondered why he hadn't been smiling the previous afternoon in Crystal Cove. He certainly hadn't acted like a man who had just pulled off the art coup of the decade. Three point six million was a price for the record books.

O'Keeffe, the most admired American woman painter in history, gained early recognition when her works were shown at the New York gallery of Albert Stieglitz, a leading proponent of modernist painting. But O'Keeffe later became associated with Southwest themes and images. She lived most of the last fifty years of her life in northwestern New Mexico, where this previously unknown painting was discovered earlier this year.

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