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Lichtenstein File art news nov 1963 squeeze the clear plastic tube [[picture]] [[picture]] feel the viscosity of the acrylic-vinyl copolymer colors ... and you'll know why NEW MASTERS is the most unique painting medium since oils! NEW MASTERS ARTISTS' COLORS are similar in appearance and handling to tubed oils, but are unlikely anything which you've ever worked. NEW MASTERS COLORS are formulated of purest, full strength certified pigments dispersed in a unique Copolymer base. No other medium available today comes close to matching its brilliance, clarity, and superb handling qualities. nm NEW MASTERS FINE ARTS MATERIALS ACCLAIMED BY ARTISTS EVERYWHERE! NEW MASTERS ART DIVISION / CALIFORNIA PRODUCTS CORP. 169 WAVERLY ST., CAMBRIDGE, MASS. SEND FOR PRESENTATION SERIES #102 - SPECIAL PRICE! KIT CONTAINS 8 - 2 oz. tubes ARTISTS COLORS 2 - 2 oz. squeeze bottles GLOSS AND MATTE MEDIUMS Retail val. $10.15 Send check or money order for $9.65 to NEW MASTERS ART DIVISION / CALIFORNIA PRODUCTS CORP. 169 Waverly Street, Cambridge, Mass. AN-N NAME___ STREET___ CITY___ ZONE___ STATE___ OR BRING COUPON TO YOUR ART MATERIALS DEALER Editor's letters Sir: I submit the enclosed as a post script to Mr. Erle Loran's on-target broadside against certain practitioners of the latest fad [A.N., Sept. '63]. If the aim of Pop Art is not to satirize the heap of commercial dross custom-crafted for a consumer mentality and force fed to all of us, what is it? Its boosters, [[Picture]] [[in the picture]]I CAN SEE THE WHOLE GALLERY ... AND THERE IS NO ART IN IT![[/in the picture]] it would seem, don't regard it as such. For me at least it has questionable value as a Thermo-fax duplicator of mediocrity, though I don't mean to impugn the integrity of these painters who, I'm sure, with the pure hearts of children, try only to reproduce what they admire. R. Glaisek Hackensack, N.J. Sir: Once upon a time, while visiting the Fine Arts Department at Columbia University, I saw "I like Eyck" in chalk on a blackboard. It seems to me that Roy Lichtenstein's painting from Erle Loran's diagram of Mme. Cezanne has about the same parochial sense of humor. Is a work of art worth only that much insinuation? I think not. It is inevitably comfortable to fasten a current artist's work to a respected historical precedent as Ivan Karp appears to have done, but his reference connecting Chardin's kitchens is distinctly superficial and generally obvious. It seems to me that the emotional level of Lichtenstein's comic strip illustrations relates them more to the tenor of Jean-Baptiste Greuze's domestic melodramas and the tableaux of Ford Maddox Brown as they look to us now, than to Chardin's "common objects of everyday life" (Mr. Loran's paraphrase). I find that I understand Mr. Loran's "documentation" but not his "dissent". Maxine Thrax Brooklyn, N. Y. Sir: What kind of nonsense Daniel Robbins writes, in his article on Morris Louis [Oct. '63], defies clarity. So many misjudgments follow each other, tumbling heel over toe in a crazy haste to make something out of nothing! A few things are left behind - this Clement Greenberg is a Svengali, stealing innocent provincial she;;s of humanity into his vast New York cave to inject them with beauty, talent and success - but his victims exist thereafter without size, shape, form, color or relations.... Benjamin Abramowitz Greenbelt, Md. P.S. By the way, as evident by your reviews of current shows, only those showing in New York are included in and as ARTNEWS. Should an important artist not live and work in New York or one of its satellite cities, or not belong to a New York dealer, or not be discovered by a New York museum, is it at all possible that you would take note of his work? After thirty years of active creative production, exhibiting and teaching, my work is quietly loved and valued. The Corcoran Gallery of Art is giving a tea in my honor, and opening an exhibition of my work [Nov. 12-Dec. 8]. Information requested A comprehensive study and catalogue raisonne of the paintings of Chaim Soutine is being prepared by Maurice Tuchman, Research Fellow at the Guggenheim Museum, who would appreciate hearing from museums, galleries and private owners of his work. Photographs, documents and other information addressed to Mr. Tuchman at 31 West 11th Street, New York 11, N.Y., will be returned after study. A catalogue raisonne of the works of John Marin is being prepared for a Ph.D dissertation, financed by a grant from the Archives of American Art, by Sheldon Reich; anyone having information about the location of Marin work should send it to Mr. Reich at the Art Department, University of Iowa, Iowa City. The former royal palace of Eltham in Kent, England, is the subject of study by E. J. Priestly, who asks whether any reader can tell him of paintings or drawings of it is in the U.S. (two watercolors, one sold last April in New York, the other at the Smith College Museum, are known to him). He also seeks information about any copies of a set of prints showing former royal palaces in England ca. 1650; they are 2 by 2 inches in size, unsigned, and have the title in block letters above the print. Mr. Priestly can be contacted at 7 Inverleith Place, Edinburgh 3, Scotland. 6 ART NEWS
