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What are the subjects and styles (and other distinctiveĬharacteristics) for which the artist’s work is best known? Many of the following questions as possible: Please include in your biography answers to as If you do not know a great deal about the artist,Īnswer as many of the following questions as you can. “internationally renowned,” “extraordinarily beautiful works.” Our editors are trained toĭelete any hype or advertising verbiage such as “most famous,” Information has been provided by Jane Doe, the niece of the artist."ĭealers and Museums will be automatically credited with a link to their Please introduce your information as follows: "The following biographical Is rewarding for all of us to see artists' files grow, and others may be eager If you do not know a great deal about theĪrtist, but have noteworthy information to share, we would welcome you to send Our site is about PAINTERS, SCULPTORS, and ILLUSTRATORS. Please keep in mind that askART is not a promotional site, and accordinglyīiographical information should not be worded for purposes of 'advertising' an When submitting biographical information, we appreciate your consideration of Viewable on Fridays, but the rest of the week biographies are available only to For all others who have useful informationĪbout this artist, please email the information Please note: All biographies will be fully If you areĪ dealer or museum not currently registered, pleaseĬlick here to register, and then you may select your artist and submitĢ. He/she is in your list of artists), and submit your biography there. Registered with askART your best approach is to log in, choose the artist (once If you feel you have worthwhile information you would like to contribute, the following means of submission is the most efficient. ![]() For today, we can only do our best to carry on the tradition.Please note: Artists not classified as American in our database may have limited biographical data compared to the extensive information about American artists.Ĭreating biographies or improving upon them is a work in progress, and we welcome information from our knowledgeable viewers. The existing collection of Boltinoffs runs out in October, Junior Whirl, and the world, Unlike the journalistic hoi polloi, we honor Boltinoff and will miss his work. And few of us ever failed to spot at least four out of six differences. ![]() Ministrations? How many students of his minutiae went on to rewarding careers asĪrt critics or graphic designers? How many trivia buffs were driven stark raving mad by "Hocus-Focus" and its world of endless itemization? We may never know. How many futureĬrime scene witnesses were better prepared to remember relevant details thanks to Boltinoff's Reading "Hocus-Focus" made better observers of all of us. ![]() Stealth a parallel universe of boys with disappearing hats and girls with repositionedĪrms a bracing burst of vaguely unsettling Americana in which flowerpots and lampsĬould move or vanish without logic or reason "Hocus Focus" plunged readers intoĪ world of detail as spare as it was compulsive, with Boltinoff as ourĪrbitrarily twisting the elements to render the whole incomplete, the real unreal. That asks the sharp-eyed reader to "Find at least six differences in details between panels."Ī dreamscape of exasperated coaches whose striped shirts shifted with barely perceptible For more than 30 years, in more than 300 newspapers,īoltinoff kept kids of all ages perplexed with "Hocus-Focus," Track exactly which features people actually look at, Boltinoff would beĪ household name and Maureen Dowd would be selling pretzels atįedEx Field. York Times found room to mourn the death of Boltinoff.īut in a just world, in a world where newspapers, like web sites, could Section in the country, not even the media-heavy death notices of the New In the words of a daughter, "just a very, very kind man." No other obituary Paragraphs that, among other things, the legendary newspaperman had onceĭrawn a Wall Street cartoon entitled "Stoker the Broker," and that he was, Of those two, the HoustonĬhronicle dispatched Boltinoff in four short sentences. States bothered to mention the passing of Henryġ9 at his home in Lake Worth, Florida. The newspaper game really is that only two journals in the United ![]() It's a measure of just how meretricious, dishonorable, and self-deluded
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