‘There’s so much noise in contemporary art. So much gesture. I realized it wasn’t my natural bent to make a lot of noise, and I’m not very good at rhetorical gesture.” William Bailey, 1930-2020, painter, professor Yale University Image: William Bailey, “Eggs,” 1974, oil on linen. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Lawrence H. […]
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