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Nicolai Fechin / Mary N. Balcomb

By:

Balcomb, Mary N

Contributor(s):

Branham, Eya Fechin

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Flagstaff, AZ : Northland Press , c1975Description: 167p. : illus.: 31 cmISBN:

978096741904

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

759.7 FEC

Awards:

Selected one of the Best Award Prestigeous Rounce & Coffin

Summary: It is becoming increasingly difficult to evaluate the work of someone like Fechin, who worked with apparent disregard for the developments in art during his lifetime and seemed to pursue an already predictable direction. A man who was a contemporary of Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keefe, John Marin (to name some of the Americans with whom he was in contact during his years in Taos) and of Picasso and Bennard, to be so consistently reluctant to organize forms in any but the most obvious combinations, to be content with the colorful illustration of what he actually saw, seems to denote, at the very least, a painter whose imagination was bound by the limits of the real and who refused the basic freedoms that painting offers. Successful in this country as a portrait painter and later as a teacher, he apparently was never willing to push his obvious talents beyond very proscribed limits.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	759.7 FEC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Non fiction		066209

It is becoming increasingly difficult to evaluate the work of someone like Fechin, who worked with apparent disregard for the developments in art during his lifetime and seemed to pursue an already predictable direction. A man who was a contemporary of Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keefe, John Marin (to name some of the Americans with whom he was in contact during his years in Taos) and of Picasso and Bennard, to be so consistently reluctant to organize forms in any but the most obvious combinations, to be content with the colorful illustration of what he actually saw, seems to denote, at the very least, a painter whose imagination was bound by the limits of the real and who refused the basic freedoms that painting offers. Successful in this country as a portrait painter and later as a teacher, he apparently was never willing to push his obvious talents beyond very proscribed limits.

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Selected one of the Best Award Prestigeous Rounce & Coffin

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