This year there were more than 850 items at the annual exhibition of Manhattan's Society of Independent Artists in which anyone may exhibit anything by paying $6 for wall space. Youth, often nude, was the keynote. Expression varied from abstractions in wood and rubber to the blushful romanticism of Victorian candy-box painting.
Virginio DeMartin in his Mono, Lisa in Paradise Dress had stripped Leonardo's inscrutable model down to a garish French postcard, not nude but naked.
Chicago Charity by Glenn Gordon was a one-legged young...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
