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Article: Whistler takes a boarder ; Gorky collection finds unusual home in Lowell artist's museum
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 26, 2009
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LOWELL - It's all a bit bemusing, and not the easiest to
explain. But through one historical quirk and another, a small
museum in Lowell that commemorates the birthplace of James McNeill
Whistler is now in the possession of almost 30 early paintings,
drawings, and prints by Arshile Gorky, the Armenian-born progenitor
of American Abstract Expressionism.
What does Gorky have to do with Whistler? And is it not a bit
strange for a museum dedicated to the memory of Whistler to become a
better place to look at works by Gorky than works by Whistler (which
are thin on the ground, to put it generously, at the Whistler House
Museum of Art)?
These are questions to which I have no particularly ...