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When Ruth Gikow decided to study art at Manhattan's Cooper Union 29 years ago, she had one goal in mind: "I wanted to do commercial art and make a lot of money so I could have a French maid." Today, Ruth Gikow, who is the wife of Painter Jack Levine, still has no French maid, but the sacrifice has not been in vain. Last week 26 of her paintings were on view at Manhattan's Nordness Gallery-forthrightly figurative works that mostly seemed as personal as pages from a diary...
...Nose. At Cooper Union, she studied under Regionalist John Steuart Curry, but learned most from the Union's director, Austin Purves, a painter who is now almost forgotten. Purves insisted that the ear and the nose, and not the eye alone, were important to the artist, so he would bundle his students off to Klein's department store or the Fulton fish market "to paint things we could smell." Ruth hated it; she wanted to be a fashion artist. One day at Central Park zoo, a fellow student drew an animal with a moving expression of fear that...
Carl-Henning Pedersen is the best painter in Denmark-and for art dealers the most frustrating. He has about 1,000 canvases stashed away in the storerooms of a Copenhagen brewery, and he turns as frosty as a glass of Carlsberg when anyone suggests that he might sell one. He recently refused a substantial check for 15 paintings because he said it would raise his standard of living, so he simply gave the paintings away. He is indifferent to what the critics say, and dealers, who try to see him at his lonely house on the west coast of Jutland...
...Copenhagen construction worker, Pedersen did not decide to become a painter until, at the age of 20, he fell in love with a girl named Else, who was a painter herself. The next year, in 1934, the two got married. Pedersen never saw any point in art schools: "They tie you. What you must learn is to master your own technique." He was strongly influenced by the childlike fantasies of Paul Klee and the emotion-soaked colors of Emile Nolde. Like Picasso, he went through "periods" keyed by colors. There were rose-colored paintings, followed by a long series...
...Painter William Gropper is, as one Manhattan critic wrote last week, "one of the honorable old guard of American painting." But the phrase should not be taken to mean that age has neutralized the acid of his style. As his new exhibition at the ACA Gallery proves, Gropper still paints villainous politicians and overstuffed capitalists-all the targets that were so in vogue in the 1930s. Yet essentially his paintings are scenes of human foolishness and tragedy, and these constants carry no date...