The artists' names become less familiar as the Upper Hudson's artistic influence waned, but the paintings here track interesting changes along the great river: the arrival of steamboats, the railroad, and the buildup of industry.
The result of years of research and the study of Cole's sketches and paintings, this is an impressively argued, exceptionally well-written and handsomely illustrated book". "Thomas Cole's Refrain deftly illuminates the artist's lesser known series of Catskill Creek paintings by tracking down sketches, repeated views, site-specific formations, and emblematic motifs.
Meanwhile, the observer, overpowered by the sheer scope and impact of this wall of paintings, can barely track these explanations, except to catch a dead-on appropriate phrase from, of all places, the novel "Spartacus" by Howard Fast: "the insolent enormity of it".
His massive group exhibition in 2008 titled Some Paintings at Track 16 in Bergamot Station was so successful that the opening reception created a SigAlert on the Santa Monica Freeway west bound at the Cloverfield exit.
Ms. West, who had promised the aunt, Shirley Almeda West, that she would preserve her life's work, said she spent almost $100,000 trying to track the paintings down.
JACK WHITTEN: FIVE DECADES OF PAINTING Mr. Whitten's exploration of painting is tracked across 50 years, through experiments with pigment, painted tiles and other actions.
Unaware, Bouvier carried on as before, tracking paintings, trying to close the gap on the Rothko.
To that list, add the Art Loss Register (ALR) and the Art Recovery Group ARGG) – two companies tasked with tracking paintings, sculptures and antiquities that have been stolen or looted, whose "bizarre" battle could end up before the monopolies watchdog or even in court.
"I'm not sure if it's an organized crime type of thing," she said, but she believes the suspects may be hired to steal specific pieces, especially because many paintings can be tracked.
To track down: Five paintings, including a Picasso and a Matisse, worth six hundred and thirty-five million dollars, were stolen from a museum in Paris.
