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Article: Henry Finkelstein at Kraushaar.
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- Art in America
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- September 1, 2003
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A graduate of Cooper Union and the Yale School of Art and a former Fulbright fellow, Henry Finkelstein currently teaches drawing and painting at the National Academy of Design in New York. In the 11 large (48-by-54-inch) oil paintings in his second solo show at Kraushaar, he renders the landscape in a loose, lyric manner that makes him heir to the abstract-leaning, nature-based esthetic of his much-admired parents, Gretna Campbell and Louis Finkelstein.
Gardens, ruins and orchards are some of the motifs found in recent canvases inspired by Maine islands and the French countryside. (In 1992, Finkelstein won a French government grant that enabled him to paint at ...