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...will accept or buy just about anything. It has more than a million original and microfilmed items, among them Benjamin West's wine bills, poems written by Albert Ryder, a Lyonel Feininger sketchbook, the notes and papers of Walt Kuhn. Last week it announced an offbeat donation from Painter Jack Levine-108 drawings that show his prodigious childhood talent...
Levine, who is now 47, remembers doing the first drawings-sprightly Chinese figures with pigtails, Keystone Kops in domed helmets, rattling horse-drawn carts-when he was seven or eight. At the time, he had just begun studying with a young painter named Harold Zimmerman, whom he had met at the Jewish Welfare Center in Roxbury, Mass. For the next eight years he worked after school, turning out drawing after drawing of things he had seen. He rarely used a model; as he does today, Levine worked almost entirely from memory...
When asked what he studied at Middlebury College in Vermont, Painter Alan Gussow answers: "American literature and the Vermont landscape." Now 30, Gussow still majors in landscapes and seascapes, and he achieves a rare blend of strength and delicacy. At times he seems to be rough with his subject. He dissects the land, shreds the sky, churns up the sea; yet instead of seeming shattered, his images take on new life. Gussow's first Manhattan show, at the Peridot Gallery, is one of the freshest of the season...
...take on meaning. Gussow found his inspiration in the countryside most familiar to him-the hills and valleys around Congers, N.Y., where he bought a house, and the sea around Maine's Monhegan Island, where he spends his summers. "I guess I'm really a provincial painter." he says. "I don't need to travel. I paint best right here...
...late Jan Müller had little sympathy with conventional notions of beauty; his visions were tormented, and he purposely painted them as bluntly as he knew how. As could be seen last week at a retrospective exhibition at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum, Müller was a painter of extraordinary power and skill: even at his most grotesque he fascinates where a lesser talent would only repel...