Leo Dee

{{short description|American painter (1931–2004)}} {{Infobox artist |name = Leo Dee |image = |image_size = |caption = |birth_name = |birth_date = {{Birth date|1931|7|8}} |birth_place = Newark, New Jersey, U.S. |death_date = {{Death date and age|2004|11|22|1931|7|8}} |death_place = Truro, Massachusetts |known_for = Artist and teacher }} '''Leo Dee''' (July 8, 1931—November 22, 2004) was an American artist and teacher. A native of Newark, New Jersey, he achieved first regional and then national prominence for his "incredibly detailed" and realistic silverpoint drawings that conveyed "the softest and most subtle transitions of tonal values".<ref name="Echoes-Sentinel Dec 14 1978"/><ref name="Chapman Sell 2015"/><ref name="askart Leo Dee"/><ref name="TFAO 2005"/>{{refn|group=note|In a ''Wall Street Journal'' article of September 11, 1985, Sandra Earley discussed the difficulty of the silverpoint technique, which she calls "a medium so demanding that artists turn into virtual hermits, working months over one small drawing, building up tone and shadow with line after tiny, thin, precise line." She says Dee's drawings "seem almost photographic in their precision, yet there is a softness and vulnerability that raises them above photographic reproduction."<ref name="Wall Street Journal Sep 1985"/>}}

==Early life and training== Dee was born in Newark, New Jersey, on July 8, 1931.<ref name="Dee SSDI 2004"/> He attended Newark Arts High School, graduating in 1950 with a three-year scholarship to attend the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts.<ref name="TFAO 2005"/> Drafted into the U.S. Army in 1953, he served two years in Fort Meade and, returning to civilian life, re-entered the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts under the G.I. Bill.<ref name="TFAO 2005"/> While a student at that school, he took classes from instructors who had established reputations in their respective fields, including Leopold Matzal (portrait painting), James Rosati and Reuben Nakian (sculpture), and Ben Cunningham (color theory).<ref name="TFAO 2005"/> Among them were two artists associated with the precisionist movement whose teaching had lasting influence on Dee's mature style. One of the two, Charles Goeller, showed Dee how to create realistic drawings in fine detail, and the other, Hans Weingaertner, showed him how to make paintings having "precise and quiet form" and ''trompe l'oeil'' realism.<ref name="TFAO 2005"/><ref name="New York Times Oct 1981"/><ref name="Charles L. Goeller American Art"/>

==Mature style== When Newark's Rabin & Krueger Gallery gave Dee his first solo exhibition in 1957, he was making paintings in an abstract style. However, impressed by the gallery's display of silverpoint drawings by Joseph Stella, he subsequently made a transition to an austere style in that medium.<ref name="TFAO 2005"/>

In 1958, Dee was hired to teach life drawing at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts and soon thereafter a collage drawing of his became the first of his works to be purchased by a major museum.<ref name="TFAO 2005"/> This piece, ''Self-Portrait'', revealed his skill in a ''trompe l'oeil'' technique by which he was able to give an appearance of collage by precise application of very fine lines. A critic for the ''New York Times'' wrote that the self-portrait was a "haunting image" having "great formal and emotional power."{{refn|group=note|The critic was John Caldwell, reviewing an exhibition that also featured works by Reginald Marsh, Moses, Raphael Soyer, and Joseph Stella. He said that Dee's self-portrait was one of the finest in the show and that he wished there were more of his drawings on view.<ref name="New York Times Mar 1981"/>}} The technique soon became Dee's dominant style of drawing.<ref name="TFAO 2005"/> A few years later, when the Newark Museum showed this drawing along with another called ''Reflections in White'', critics remarked on the "superrealism" that he achieved, his "staggering technical perfection," and an apparent "intense concern for truth and purity."{{refn|group=note|The show was called ''Forms in Contemporary Art'' (1963). The critics were Michael Lenson, writing in the ''Newark Sunday News''; Donald Malafronte in the ''Newark Star-Ledger''; and John Canaday in the ''New York Times''.<ref name="TFAO 2005"/><ref name="New York Times Jun 1963"/>}} This technique shows up in a silverpoint drawing he made in 1964 called ''Musician''. thumb|right|Leo Dee, ''Fringed Drapery'', 2003, silverpoint on paper, 40.6 x 30.5 cm., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

In 1966, a drawing of Dee's appeared in a touring exhibition of 100 drawings sponsored by the American Federation of Arts.<ref name="New York Times Nov 1966"/> Reviewing the show for the ''New York Times'', Grace Glueck, singled out a drawing called ''Death and Transfiguration'' as one of her two favorites.{{refn|group=note|The exhibition was sponsored by a New York art organization called the Drawing Society, which had selected its contents from among a large number of submissions received from regional centers around the United States. As well as the one by Dee, the 100 drawings in the show included works by Isabel Bishop, Edwin Dickinson, Leonard Baskin, James Rosenquist, Henry C. Pearson, Roy Lichtenstein, and Fritz Glarner.<ref name="New York Times Nov 1966"/> Glueck wrote, "This viewer's favorites were two small-format drawings that seemed to work down to the nub of each artist's style: Larry Zox's delicately colored crayon and pencil abstraction, ''Untitled, 1964'', and Leo J. Dee's pencil drawing of a withering apple half, ''Death and Transfiguration''."<ref name="New York Times Nov 1966"/>}} A few years later, the art gallery at Yale University purchased ''Paper Landscape'', a silverpoint drawing that the authors of an art book describe as "a contemporary handling of the ''trompe l'œil'' technique where verisimilitude is the goal."<ref name="Teel Sale 2007"/>{{refn|group=note|The authors say, "A torn segment of an envelope is realistically rendered; an isolated detail of the crumpled paper emerges from the blank picture plane. By the title, ''Paper Landscape'', we are given directions to interpret the drawing as a metaphorical stand-in for a landscape. Careful control of the tool, silverpoint on prepared board, and a concentrated observation result in a trick-the-eye texture."<ref name="Teel Sale 2007"/>}} In 1975, Dee was given a solo exhibition at the Coe Kerr Gallery, New York.<ref name="Dee Gallery 1975"/> The show brought together some of his paintings and reliefs as well as the silverpoint drawings for which he had achieved recognition. Writing in the ''New York Times'', a critic admired the painstaking still-life draftsmanship of the drawings and said the other work was "unlikely to make history."<ref name="New York Times Nov 1975"/> Three years later, the New Jersey State Museum displayed twenty-seven of his drawings and two masonite reliefs in a show held in the main gallery.<ref name="Echoes-Sentinel Dec 21 1978"/> A reviewer noted that Dee made his subjects "come alive," eliminating superfluous elements and rendering them with great realism. "The viewer," she wrote, "is not merely getting a detailed rendition of the object but also a feeling for the essence of that object… Though incredibly detailed, Dee's work is very modern in its approach."{{refn|group=note|The critic was Rachel Mullen, who was writing in a local paper, the Warren Township ''Echoes-Sentinel''. The article contains a more comprehensive appreciation of Dee's work than appeared in other news accounts.<ref name="Echoes-Sentinel Dec 14 1978"/>}}

During the 1980s and 1990s, Dee's drawings appeared in group exhibitions in New Jersey museums and galleries, and critics continued to praise their fine draftsmanship and meticulous realism.<ref name="TFAO 2005"/><ref name="New York Times May 1982"/><ref name="New York Times Jul 1991"/><ref name="New York Times Aug 1991"/><ref name="New York Times Jun 1992"/><ref name="New York Times May 1998"/> His silverpoint work won praise as well for its "softness and spirituality."<ref name="Wall Street Journal"/> In 1978, a critic wrote that "Dee can make a piece of drapery come alive and can make you feel the sensuous curves of an apple, a pear, or a lemon, or the mystery of the spiral chamber of a conch shell"<ref name="Echoes-Sentinel Dec 14 1978"/> and, the same year, he himself commented on this quality in his art. "In my drawings," he wrote, "I strive for elegance and a quality of magic. With a large, open portion of the surface, I seek to create a special universe for each object, giving it a life of its own. Finding human characteristics in a pear or lemon, viewing landscapes in a crumpled piece of paper, I try to evoke the feeling that all of nature is one."{{refn|group=note|The statement appeared in the exhibition catalog that accompanied the solo exhibition of Dee's drawings and reliefs in the main gallery of the Trenton State Museum in 1978.<ref name="Echoes-Sentinel Dec 14 1978"/>}} In 2015, his silverpoint drawing, ''Paper Landscape'', c. 1972, was exhibited in a group show at the National Gallery of Art and noted for its microscopic precision.<ref>Sell, S. and Chapman, H. Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns. p.229. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ. 2015.</ref>

==Art teacher==

In 1958, Dee was appointed as an instructor of drawing and painting at the Newark School of Fine & Industrial Art. He later became the school's principal instructor of realistic drawing, retiring in 1993.<ref name="TFAO 2005"/><ref name="artprice"/> Thereafter he taught evening classes at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey in Summit, N.J. and was periodically a visiting instructor at Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J.<ref name="TFAO 2005"/><ref name="Echoes-Sentinel Aug 1978"/>

==Personal information== Dee was born on July 8, 1931, in Newark, New Jersey.<ref name="Dee SSDI 2004"/><ref name="TFAO 2005"/> His parents were Leo J. Dee and Elenor K. Dee.{{refn|group=note|Details about Dee's parentage and early life are given in "Leo Dee (1931–2004)," by David B. Dearinger, which appeared first in 2005 in the "Resource Library" section of the home page of the Boston Athenæum and which was taken from the catalog of an exhibition held in 2005 called ''Power Line: The Art of Leo Dee'', held February 18 through April 30, 2005, at the Boston Athenæum. The article says that the name of Dee's maternal grandmother was Elenita, Roloff Kennedy, making it probable that his mother's maiden name was Kennedy.<ref name="TFAO 2005"/>}} It is suggested that his maternal grandmother, an artist who had attended the predecessor of the school where Dee learned and later taught art, influenced his decision to become an artist himself.<ref name="TFAO 2005"/>

In 1963, Dee married the art historian and museum curator Elaine Evans.<ref name="TFAO 2005"/> She had previously been married to William H. Gerdts, the author of an essay on Dee that appeared in the catalog for Dee's solo show at the Coe Kerr Gallery in 1975.<ref name="Dee Gallery 1975"/><ref name="Washington Post Mar 1982"/>

In 1993, Dee retired from his teaching position at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts, and three years later, after short-term, part-time teaching stints in northern New Jersey, he and Elaine Evans moved permanently to Truro, Massachusetts, a village on Cape Cod where they had previously spent summer vacations.<ref name="TFAO 2005"/> There, he continued to make silverpoint drawings using elements in the local landscape for his subjects. He died in Truro on November 22, 2004.<ref name="Dee SSDI 2004"/><ref name="TFAO 2005"/>

'''Other names'''

As his professional name, Dee used Leo Dee or sometimes Leo J. Dee. When young, he was known as Leo J. Dee, Jr.<ref name="Dee Census 1940"/> His friends and family called him Joe Dee.<ref name="TFAO 2005"/><ref name="Truro Log 2012"/>

==Exhibitions==

During the 1970s and 1980s, Dee exhibited frequently in New Jersey galleries and museums and occasionally, as well, in New York.<ref name="TFAO 2005"/> This list is representative, not comprehensive. It comes from art web sites,<ref name="artprice"/><ref name="HighBoy"/><ref name="Christies 1985"/> galleries,<ref name="Dee Gallery 1975"/><ref name="Art of Leo Dee"/><ref name="Boston Athenæum"/> a book,<ref name="Mullen Books"/> and many news accounts.<ref name="New York Times Nov 1966"/><ref name="New York Times Aug 1991"/><ref name="New York Times Jun 1992"/><ref name="New York Times May 1998"/><ref name="Wall Street Journal"/><ref name="Washington Post Mar 1982"/><ref name="New York Times Sep 1966"/>

*1957 solo, Rabin & Krueger, Newark, New Jersey *1957 group, "New Talents," Newark Foam Rubber Center, Newark, New Jersey *1959 group, Newark Museum, New Jersey *1963 group, "Forms in Contemporary Art," Newark Museum, New Jersey *1964 group, traveling exhibition of contemporary American drawings *1966 group, "Yesterday and Tomorrow," Mark of the Phoenix Gallery, New York *1966 group, "Meticulous Realism," Tawes Art Center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland *1966 group, "Art From New Jersey," New Jersey State Museum, Trenton *1966 group, "100 contemporary drawings," Drawing Society and American Federation of Arts, New York *1967 group, "Geometric Art: An Exhibition of Paintings and Constructions by Fourteen Contemporary New Jersey Artists," New Jersey State Museum, Trenton *1970 group, "Fourth Invitational Painting and Sculpture Exhibition," Van Deusen Gallery, Kent State University *1975 solo, retrospective exhibition, Coe Kerr Gallery, New York *1978 solo, "29 Drawings by Leo Dee," New Jersey State Museum, Trenton *1979 solo, "The Art of Leo Dee," New Jersey State Museum, Trenton *1980 group, "New Jersey Masters, 1980," Gill/St. Bernard's School, Gladstone, New Jersey *1981 group, Kean College Art Gallery, Union, New Jersey *1982 group, "The accessible joys of American still life," touring exhibition *1982 group, Coe Kerr Gallery, New York *1984 group, "B Orwell's '1984' Interpreted By New Jersey Artists," Newark Museum, New Jersey *1985 group, "Fifth New Jersey Artists Biennial," Newark Museum, New Jersey *1985 group, "The Fine Line," Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida *1991 group, "102 Prints," Newark Public Library, Newark, New Jersey *1991 group, "11th New Jersey Arts Annual Exhibition," Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey *1992 group, "Aspects of Realism," Trenton State Museum, Trenton *1994 group, "More Than Meets the Eye," Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey *1998 group, "For Beauty and for Truth: The William and Abigail Gerdts Collection of American Still Life," Berry-Hill Galleries, New York *2005 solo, "Power Line: The Art of Leo Dee," Boston Athenæum, Boston, Massachusetts *2015 group, "Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns," National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

==Collections==

This list is representative, not comprehensive. It comes from art web sites<ref name="TFAO 2005"/><ref name="artprice"/> and museums.<ref name="Yale Bulletin 1977"/><ref name="Montclair Art Museum 2005"/><ref name="Utah Museum of Fine Arts"/><ref name="Hunter Museum"/><ref name="Harvard Art Museums"/>

*Columbus Museum, Columbus, Ohio *Cooper-Hewitt Museum, N.Y. *Fannie E. Rippel Foundation, Newark, N.J. *Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. *Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tenn. *New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, N.J. *Newark Museum, Newark, N.J. *Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Penn. *Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Mass. *Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah *Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

==Notes== {{reflist|group=note|30em}}

==References== {{Reflist |30em |refs=

<ref name="Yale Bulletin 1977">{{cite journal |author=Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. |title=Collecting American Art for Yale, 1968–1976: A Curatorial Report |volume=36 |issue=2 |date=Spring 1977 |publisher=Yale University |location=New Haven, Conn. |page=17 }}</ref>

<ref name="Dee SSDI 2004">{{cite web |title=Leo J. Dee, 22 November 2004 |access-date=2015-10-18 |url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JBVM-P2F |work="United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing)}}</ref>

<ref name="Dee Census 1940">{{cite web |title=Leo J Dee in household of Leo J Dee, Assembly District 4, Queens, New York City, Queens, New York, United States |access-date=2015-10-18 |url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3BL-7D4 |work="United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch; citing enumeration district (ED) 41-904, sheet 1B, family 14, NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), roll 2737}}</ref>

<ref name="askart Leo Dee">{{cite web |url=http://www.askart.com/artist/Leo_Joseph_Dee/100707/Leo_Joseph_Dee.aspx |title=Leo Dee – Artist |work=askart.com |access-date=2015-10-20}}</ref>

<ref name="TFAO 2005">{{cite web|url=http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/5aa/5aa282.htm |author=David B. Dearinger |title=Leo Dee (1931–2004) |work=Traditional Fine Arts Organization |access-date=2015-10-02 |quote=[This] essay was excerpted from the illustrated catalog ({{ISBN|0-934552-72-X}}) for the exhibition Power Line: The Art of Leo Dee, held February 18 through April 30, 2005, at the Boston Athenæum. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151204011420/http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/5aa/5aa282.htm |archive-date=December 4, 2015 }}</ref>

<ref name="Truro Log 2012">{{cite web |url=http://www.truro-ma.gov/sites/truroma/files/file/file/2012_04log.pdf |title=Face of Experience: Elaine Dee |work=Truro Log, Town of Truro, Mass. |access-date=2015-10-20}}</ref>

<ref name="artprice">{{cite web |url=http://www.artprice.com/artist/112237/leo-joseph-dee/biography |title=The biography of Leo Joseph DEE: information and auctions for the artworks by the artist Leo Joseph DEE |work=Artprice.com |access-date=2015-10-21}}</ref>

<ref name="HighBoy">{{cite web |url=https://www.thehighboy.com/works-on-paper/drawing/1237470364-leo-dee-1931-2004-American-musician-an-original-abstract-silverpoint-drawing-1964 |title=Leo Dee (1931–2004) American; "Musician", an Original Abstract Silverpoint Drawing, 1964 |work=The HighBoy |access-date=2015-10-21}}</ref>

<ref name="Montclair Art Museum 2005">{{cite web |url=https://www.montclairartmuseum.org/docs/AnnualReport2005.pdf |title=Annual Report, 2005 |work=Montclair Art Museum |access-date=2015-10-22}}</ref>

<ref name="Mullen Books">{{cite web |url=http://www.mullenbooks.com/advSearchResults.php?category_id=295&action=search&authorField=New+Museum&orderBy=author&recordsLength=25 |title=Mullen Books: American Art |access-date=2015-10-22}}</ref>

<ref name="Utah Museum of Fine Arts">{{cite web |url=http://collections.umfa.utah.edu/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/2973 |title=Leo Joseph Dee, American |work=UMFA: Utah Museum of Fine Arts |access-date=2015-10-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151203215251/http://collections.umfa.utah.edu/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/2973# |archive-date=2015-12-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

<ref name="Hunter Museum">{{cite web |url=http://emuseum.huntermuseum.org/eMuseum/view/people/asitem/items$0040:4368/0;jsessionid=F58883F0BB5FB5E2B3CBC6B593EA43C0?t:state:flow=aae57da8-2a85-40f5-a19d-98cec89ea487 |title=Leo Joseph Dee |work=Hunter Museum of American Art |access-date=2015-10-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304095827/http://emuseum.huntermuseum.org/eMuseum/view/people/asitem/items$0040:4368/0;jsessionid=F58883F0BB5FB5E2B3CBC6B593EA43C0?t:state:flow=aae57da8-2a85-40f5-a19d-98cec89ea487 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

<ref name="Harvard Art Museums">{{cite web |url=http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/art/190508 |title=From the Harvard Art Museums' collections: Muslin Drapery |work=Harvard Art Museums |access-date=2015-10-22}}</ref>

<ref name="Boston Athenæum">{{cite web |url=https://www.bostonathenaeum.org/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/more-past-exhibitions |title=Power Line: The Art of Leo Dee, February 17 – April 30, 2005 |work=Boston Athenæum |access-date=2015-10-22}}</ref>

<ref name="Charles L. Goeller American Art">{{cite web |url=http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=1837 |title=Charles L. Goeller |work=Smithsonian American Art Museum |access-date=2015-10-26}}</ref>

<ref name="Christies 1985">{{cite web |url=http://www.christies.com/presscenter/pdf/2012/StephenScottYoung.pdf |title=Freedom: The Art of Stephen Scott Young |work=Christie's Private Sales |access-date=2015-10-28}}</ref>

<ref name="Dee Gallery 1975">{{cite book |author1=Leo Joseph Dee |author2=Coe Kerr Gallery |title=The art of Leo Dee: exhibition November 5th through November 29th, 1975 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JcJJAQAAIAAJ |year=1975 |publisher=Coe Kerr Gallery}}</ref>

<ref name="Art of Leo Dee">{{cite book |title=The Art of Leo Dee: Exhibition December 2, 1978, Through January 7, 1979, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QVNHtwAACAAJ |date=1978 |publisher=New Jersey State Museum}}</ref>

<ref name="Teel Sale 2007">{{cite book |author1=Teel Sale |author2=Claudia Betti |title=Drawing: A Contemporary Approach |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6GCnEZZbOEgC&pg=PA150 |date=19 January 2007 |publisher=Cengage Learning |isbn=978-0-495-09491-3|page=150}}</ref>

<ref name="Chapman Sell 2015">{{cite book |author1=Hugo Chapman |author2=Stacey Sell |title=Drawing in Silver and Gold: From Leonardo to Jasper Johns |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I0PJBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA93 |date=26 May 2015 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-16612-4 |page=93}}</ref>

<ref name="New York Times Jun 1963">{{cite news |title=Good Show in Newark: Museum Examines an American Period Double Virtue |author=John Canaday |work=New York Times |date=1963-06-02 |page=119 |quote=As a postscript, the museum has a smaller summer exhibition called "Forms in Contemporary Art," an unpretentious survey of various abstract and representational manners well illustrated with paintings from the permanent collection. It included one called "White Reflections," by Leo Dee, that should not be missed. All I know about Mr. Dee is that he painted this picture and was born in 1931, but whoever he is, he has painted a trompe l'oeil of such staggering technical perfection and at the same time of such high decorative character that one wonders where he keeps himself and his other pictures.}}</ref>

<ref name="New York Times Sep 1966">{{cite news |title=Display ad: Mark of the Phoenix Gallery |work=New York Times |date=1966-09-11 |page=161 }}</ref>

<ref name="New York Times Nov 1966">{{cite news |title=Art: Drawing Society's Road Show: 100 Works Arrive for Final Stop of Tour |author=Grace Glueck |work=New York Times |date=1966-11-26 |page=31 }}</ref>

<ref name="New York Times Nov 1975">{{cite news |title=Art: In Show of New Noland Paintings, Consistency Takes Unexpected Forms |author=John Russell |work=New York Times |date=1975-11-22 |page=38 }}</ref>

<ref name="Echoes-Sentinel Aug 1978">{{cite news |title=New Class Offerings At Summit Art Center |work=Echoes-Sentinel |location=Warren Township, New Jersey |date=1978-08-31 |page=41 }}</ref>

<ref name="Echoes-Sentinel Dec 14 1978">{{cite news |title=In the Galleries: Two Excellent Exhibits at State Museum |author=Rachel Mullen |work=Echoes-Sentinel |location=Warren Township, New Jersey |date=1978-12-14|page=105 }}</ref>

<ref name="Echoes-Sentinel Dec 21 1978">{{cite news |title=In the Galleries |work=Echoes-Sentinel |location=Warren Township, New Jersey |date=1978-12-21|page=91 }}</ref>

<ref name="New York Times Mar 1981">{{cite news |title=Art: Two Newark Art Dealers Remembered at Kean |author=John Caldwell |work=New York Times |date=1981-03-01 |page=NJ28 }}</ref>

<ref name="New York Times Oct 1981">{{cite news |title=Art: Transplanted Romanticist at Kean |author=Vivien Raynor |work=New York Times |date=1992-06-28 |page=NJ42 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/11/nyregion/art-transplanted-romanticist-at-kean.html |access-date=2015-10-21 }}</ref>

<ref name="Washington Post Mar 1982">{{cite news |title=The Accessible Joys Of American Still Life |author=Paul Richard |newspaper=Washington Post |location=Washington, D.C. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1982/03/14/the-accessible-joys-of-American-still-life/aef52a87-a6a5-4040-8a50-622a84b344c6/ |date=1982-03-14 |page=M1 |access-date=2015-10-21 }}</ref>

<ref name="New York Times May 1982">{{cite news |title=Art: Trenton: Elegant, yet humane, space |author=John Caldwell |work=New York Times |date=1982-05-16 |page=NJ24 }}</ref>

<ref name="New York Times Jul 1991">{{cite news |title=Art: Invitations and Momentum |author=Vivien Raynor |work=New York Times |date=1991-07-21 |page=NJ10 }}</ref>

<ref name="New York Times Aug 1991">{{cite news |title=Art: A Celebration of Prints and, Nearby, a Sampling of Folk Art |author=Vivien Raynor |work=New York Times |date=1991-08-18 |page=A16 }}</ref>

<ref name="New York Times Jun 1992">{{cite news |title=Art: In Show of New Noland Paintings, Consistency Takes Unexpected Forms |author=Vivien Raynor |work=New York Times |date=1992-06-28 |page=NJ12 }}</ref>

<ref name="New York Times May 1998">{{cite news |title=Tasting Fruits at a Painterly Produce Stand |author=Grace Glueck |work=New York Times |date=1998-05-29 |page=E35 }}</ref>

<ref name="Wall Street Journal Sep 1985">{{cite news |title=The Gallery: Art: The Siren Song of Silverpoint |author=Sandra Earley |work=Wall Street Journal |location=New York |date=1985-09-11 |page=1 }}</ref>

<ref name="Wall Street Journal">{{cite news |title=Arts in Review – Art: Precious Metal, Delicate Work |author=Laurence Barrymore |work=Wall Street Journal |location=New York |date=2015-05-21 |page=D5 }}</ref>

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