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Jan 26, 2022Liked by Deda Edney

And your stories are so interesting! Thanks.

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Looks like Stuart Davis was kind of a big deal. His art is crazy bold though. I like your dad's art a lot better!

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Jim, Davis's abstractions were just ahead of my dad's explorations into the non-objective, so I wonder if they talked about abstraction vs. pictorial in the studio that day!

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. Your parents were really interesting people. Like you. Absolutely love the painting by your dads!!!! Colors, subject matter. Do you still have the PICTURE?

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No, Cindy, I don't have this painting but I wish I did. It's ironic that today he'd have no trouble finding a gallery as a "New Hope Modernist", but back then finding buyers was his greatest frustration.

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