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Article: John Graham at Richard York. (New York).
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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Compensating for the 15-year hiatus since the last John Graham exhibition, Richard York Gallery presented a concise and illuminating survey addressing nearly every stage of Graham's eclectic career. Among the 24 works were realist and Cubist experiments of the 1920s and '30s; meditations from the 1940s on art history including Poussin m'instruit (1944), not shown since 1970; and mystical portraits of the 1950s, among them Aurea Mediocritas (1952), last exhibited in 1960.
Graham (1881-1961) was born Ivan Gratianovich Dombrowsky in Kiev--the son, he claimed, of Jupiter. He immigrated to New York in 1920, bringing with him firsthand knowledge of the European ...