High Summer continues its slow sapping of content from the art media. Jerry Saltz leaves us with a slideshow of his favorite paintings in New York, including this Marsden Hartley canvas that he declares is the work he would most want to live with because:
I am so overwhelmed by the wounded otherness in Hartley’s art that I can’t write about it or him. He defeats me.
A Grand Tour (New York Magazine)
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