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Guess Who (by artist's works!)
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Faster than fairies, faster than witches, (Franz Kline)
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Dirk, Moderator
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Jul 17, 2019 11:41AM
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No, but it looks a bit like Sheets I admit. He was not on my "still to do" list. To be honest, I never heard of him before ;-)
Not surprised you hadn’t heard of him. He was big in Southern California in the first part of the 20th centiry.
Albert Pinkham Ryder????? Wild guess ...
Chris wrote: "Albert Pinkham Ryder????? Wild guess ..."Another name I never heard of!
I just googeld him and I can see why you thought of him... strange work though.
But no, it's not Pinkham Ryder.
Also a wrong generation: Ryder was born almost 60 years before the artist we're looking for.
I’ve never heard of that one before and from looking at the screen too long I misread it at first and thought it said “Pumpkin Ryder” oops!
He was an oddball indeed. Didn't ride any pumpkins, as far as I know. Now ... if you're into Cormac McCarthy you can read about a watermelon "rider"(don't ask) in "Suttree."
Sorry guys, I just noticed that my comment about Pinkham Ryder was a bit confusing, to be clear: it is not Pinkham Ryder.Also the artist we seek is famous for a very different style of work!
Here is a second pic, but also not in that style:
No Geoffrey, Raoul Dufy was French, wrong nationality.
Franz Kline
Hah! I thought I made it too easy now ;-)Of course Franz Kline.
The first pics I posted were made in the early 1940s.
legend has it that he began creating his famous big abstract canvasses in 1948 because of a suggestion by his friend de Kooning.
Some of these coming up, just give me a minute ;-)
Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;
And charging along like troops in a battle,
All through the meadows the horses and cattle:
All of the sights of the hill and the plain
Fly as thick as driving rain;
And ever again, in the wink of an eye,
Painted stations whistle by.
Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,
All by himself and gathering brambles;
Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;
And there is the green for stringing the daisies!
Here is a cart run away in the road
Lumping along with man and load;
And here is a mill and there is a river:
Each a glimpse and gone for ever!
Robert Louis Stevenson
I’d have never ever gotten it from his figurative work.
