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"SometimesIfeelmycanvasesexistnotoncanvasbutinspace,liiccmusical
progressions,religiousinapassionatesense,notinanysecularorrepresentational
sense."
TheextractscitedabovearefromatalkgivenbyPousette-Dartinconjunction
withanexhibitionofabstractpaintingsattheSchooloftheMuseumofFineArtsin
Bostonin1951.
Hewasbornin.St.Paul,Minnesota,in1916,livedforawhilein\'alhalla.New
York,andinNewYorkCity.Heisselftaught.Therehavebeenatleastelevenone-
manshowsofhisworkinNewYork,beginningin1939.Hispaintingshavebeen
includedinnationalexhibitionsacrossthecountPi'inthelastsixyearsandhave
beenseeninshowsasfarafieldasVeniceand 7 okyo.In 1951 hewasawardeda
GuggenheimFellowship.
ExamplesofhispaintingsbelongtotheMuseumofModernArtinNewYork
andtheAddisonGalleryof.AmericanAnatPhillipsAcademy,Andover,Massachu-
setts, aswell astoprivatecollectors, amongthemWalter P. Lewisohn, Peggy
Guggenheim,andMerleArmitage.HenowlivesinSloatsburg,NewYork.
PRESTOPINO,Grcgorio,Roots, 41 x36. Illustration—Plate 26
"Iamstillworkingonthetheorythatcontemporarypaintingshouldhavenolimi-
tationssuchasmostofournon-objectiveartistshaveimposedonthemselves.
"...Ihaveformanyyearsuseddesign,distortion,expressiveu.seofcolor,
unorthodoxarrangementsofpattern,flatformsparticulartoourtime,allinaneffort
toexpressmoreintenselysensitivestatementsofpeopleandplaces.Inotherwords
paintingformeisstilladdition,notsubtraction."
PrestopinowasborninNewYorkCityin1907.HestudiedattheNational
AcademyofDesigninNewYorkfrom 1923 to1929.Intheyear193(ihetraveled
andstudiedinseveralcountriesofcontinentalEurope.Hisworkhasbeenexhibited
widelyintheUnitedStatesofAmericaandwasalsoincludedinthebiennialat
Venicein1950.AtthePepsi-Colacompetitionof194(5hewonaprizeof$1,500and
aprizeof$750inthesameshowthenextyear.TheTempleGoldMedalwas
awardedhisworkattheannualexhibitionofthePennsylvania.AcademyoftheFine
Artsin1946;HonorableMentionattheBrooklynSocietyofArtistsshowin1947;
andin 1951 hisTheMarketwasthesubjectofapurchaseprizeattheUniversityof
Illinois.HehasbeenteachingpaintinganddrawingattheBrooklynMuseum.\rt
Schoolsince1946.
PicturesbyPrestopinofuniipartofthepcrnianentcollectionsofthe\Vhitncy
MuseumofAmerican.\nandllu-MuseumofModern.\ninNewYork;Rochester
(NewYork)MemorialArt(Jallery;PhillipsMemorialGalleryinWashington,D.C.;
WalkerArtCenter,Minneapolis,Minnesota;Honolulu (Hawaii).XcademyofArts;
andtheuniversitiesof.Mahama,Illinois, Nebraska,andOklahoma. Helivesin
Roosevelt,NewJersey.
PUMA,Fernando,EtcnwlWorld, 30 x37. Illustration—Plate 69
'"Hereareafewthoughtswritteninresponsetonuni\ qucvlimisputto me
concerningmywork,"saysFernandoPum.i.
"Anartistmustcreatesomethingimportantandthenstepwithinthecreation
todrawforthmoresustenance.Itisnotenoughsimplytocreateaformandthenbe
satisfied.Itisthiswanderingthroughthedepthoftheinsidetodrawforthmore
subtlety.Most|5aiiilcrsiri'ati"fiimiandlliciistepawayandmovetowardthebeholder.
