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Nell Blaine : her art and life
- Title
- Nell Blaine : her art and life / by Martica Sawin.
- Author
- Sawin, Martica.
- Publication
- New York : Hudson Hills Press ; [Lanham, MD] : Distributed in the USA, its territories and possessions, and Canada by National Book Network, ©1998.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Blaine, Nell, 1922-1996
- Description
- 153 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm
- Summary
- Nell Blaine was an important member of the second generation of the New York School, her work representing a dialogue between abstract principles and her sensory responses to the visible world. Her oils and watercolors of gardens, landscapes, and flower-filled still lifes display her commitment to the pleasure principle, her delight in vision, combined with a gift for improvisation and rhythm learned from the jazz greats of the 1940s.
- This joyous volume, illustrating more than fifty years of work, also recounts - often in Blaine's own words - the artist's life history, from her excitement when a pair of eyeglasses suddenly allowed her to see the world around her at the age of two; to the thrill of her escape to New York at the age of nineteen; to the inspiring story of Blaine's heroic victory over the polio that almost killed her in 1959. It is also invaluable as a history of the postwar community of artists, writers, and musicians with whom Blaine lived, worked, and traveled.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 146-149) and index.
- Contents
- Nell Baline : her art and life.
- ISBN
- 1555951139
- 9781555951139
- LCCN
- 98017813
- OCLC
- ocm38964099
- 38964099
- SCSB-9516874
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library