The West
The Modern West:
American Landscapes, 1890–1950
Los Angeles County Museum
of Art
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Let us say that a
painting-and-photography exhibition has to have the text that serves to
establish the fact of letters among the interleaves, and the text in the
catalogue amounts to all that. By a trick,
Thomas Moran takes the scenic route with the photographers, Marsden Hartley
and Stanton Macdonald-Wright achieve the oneness and the high that are
outlasting, the barroom brawlers and itinerant preachers give you on the
wagon train of Jackson Pollock’s drip-cans Clyfford Still. We have it in
mind that the place is not surrounded for nothing. |
