More than 126 years after his death, William Thompson Walters, a founder of the Baltimore art museum that bears his name, is finally getting his day of reckoning.
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Officials at Dallas museums say they have no such plans, but donors are already taking steps to guard against it.
From right to left, Laren McDowell, Laura Borinsky and Cara Darden look at The Last Supper, 1986, one of Andy Warhol s paintings that is on exhibit at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in 2010.(DAVID WOO/Staff Photographer)
We live in an age when a single painting can sell for $450.3 million. It happened in 2017, when the Saudi crown prince seized the moment during a high-profile auction and won the title to Leonardo da Vinci’s
Walking into a room of Jackson Pollock’s drip-paintings in 1951, Helen Frankenthaler said the experience was like moving to Lisbon with no Portuguese and feeling compelled to put down roots: “I wanted to live in this land, and I had to live there but I just didn’t know the language.” This wild terrain was Abstract Expressionism and, while it may have seemed a far-flung monoglot culture to the precocious 22-year-old Frankenthaler, her own syntax of forms would soon come to express so much of what that language was able to articulate.
Frankenthaler’s immersion did not take long. After completing her art school studies at Bennington College in 1950, she moved back to New York, and by the following spring she was offered her first solo show at Tibor de Nagy Gallery on the strength of her formative abstractions.