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laodan discovered 24 months ago
A Playwright's Art: 'It's Your Birthday, Clifford Odets! I was surprised when I discovered Odets paintings by the warm, lighthearted but nevertheless concerned colors he used. He gave sense through colors. Odets has never been a professional painter, he was a man of knowledge, here perhaps lays the recipe for sensical painting. I mean far from the market... in The NYTArts, by KATHRYN SHATTUCK """ Although Clifford Odets was self-educated, he had over the years amassed an extensive knowledge of the fine arts by way of his voracious reading. He had also developed an intense friendship with J. B. Neumann, the New York art dealer, under whose tutelage he collected works by Picasso, Chagall, Matisse, Magritte, Georges Rouault, John Marin, Chaim Soutine, Horace Pippin and his favorite, Paul Klee, whose paintings Odets stockpiled, buying them up at a couple of hundred dollars each. At one point Odets owned more than 60 Klees, the largest private holding in the United States. And sometime in the early 1940's, when his thoughts turned increasingly troubled, and insomnia took charge of his life, Odets himself began to paint, producing more than 600 artworks from 1945 to 1957. Forty of them are on display in "It's Your Birthday, Clifford Odets! A Centennial Exhibition" at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery on West 57th Street in Manhattan. """ URL: A Playwright's Art: 'It's Your Birthday, Clifford Odets!
