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...

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...