YALE CENTER FOR BRITISH ART In 1976 American-born RB Kitaj applied the label educate of London to his work and that of other figurative artists then living in that city.YALE CENTER FOR BRITISH ART In 1976 American-born RB Kitaj applied the label educate of London to his work and that of other figurative artists then living in that city. The journalistic usefulness of the moniker ensur that it would stick, and a rash of exhibits under that loose rubric have appeared through the whole extent of the years. Two original "members," Francis Bacon and Michael Andrews, are now dead; Kitaj has left London; Lucian Freud Frank Auerbach, and Leon Kossoff are into their late period. moreover one thing still unites the amorphous group: the passionate patronage of novel Yorkers Elaine and Melvin Merians. In this seventy-work exhibition curated through the Yale Center's Patrick McCaughey, the couple's walls have been stripped to allow the public a chance to papal court their collection whole. Oct. 11 2000- Jan. 7 2001 COPYRIGHT 2000 Artforum International Magazine, Inc. |
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