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    The Secret Paintings of Elisabeth Stevens
    The Secret Paintings of Elisabeth Stevens
    The Secret Paintings of Elisabeth Stevens
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    The Secret Paintings of Elisabeth Stevens

    By Elisabeth Stevens

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    Paintings by Elisabeth Stevens with interpretive essay by art critic Joan Altabe. Show featured at Stakenborg Fine Art in Sarasota Florida.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateApr 1, 2013
    ISBN9780981789194
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      The Secret Paintings of Elisabeth Stevens - Elisabeth Stevens

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      ARTIST’S EXPLANATION AND PREFACE

      When I was 25, a poor student living in a fifth floor walkup in New York City, I made an enormous India ink drawing I called The Chimera. It pictured a ferocious and unreal animal dominating four smaller creatures: a smiling satyr, a sagacious serpent, an angry ape and a sensuous woman with the head of a cat.

      Hopefully, I invested in having the work matted and took it to the Whitney Museum where an open entry competition was in progress. It’s not that you’re too insignificant for us... a well-dressed, young male curator told me in a patronizing, front parlor voice.

      I took my chimera back up the five flights. Abstract Expressionism was king. I was not an abstract artist. I was a writer of fiction and poetry, a Ph.D. candidate in Literature at Columbia University and part-time professor. Later, I transformed my ink drawings into on-the-spot reportage and illustrations for news magazines. ( See: IN BLACK & WHITE: AMERICA IN THE TURBULENT 1960’S AND AFTER, forthcoming 2015.)

      Time passed. I left New York, went to work for THE WASHINGTON POST as art critic, the first job I ever had that I really liked. Then I married

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