here are my latest sketches<\/a>.<\/p>\nI went to the DeYoung today for the first time. I don’t have a lot of time but I wanted to do a walk through. I’m very excited about the collection and I’m looking forward to spending long afternoons getting to know some of the work there intimately. I did spend some time with the depression era and bay area figurative work.<\/p>\n
If you go, do me a favor and pay attention to the huge Frank Lobdell painting downstairs before you enter the Egyptian show. I am a big Frank Lobdell fan and I nearly fell over when I saw it. I didn’t expect to see it there. Everyone around me wasn’t even looking at it. Which was kinda sad. So just give it a moment or two, ok? It’s an abstract representation of Saturn eating his young and has to do with Lobdell’s feelings about the Vietnam war. It is a sad homage to all the youth who needlessly lost their lives because of old crusty man politics (my own interpretation, obviously). I don’t know if Lobdell was thinking about crusty old men when he painted it. Who knows, maybe he was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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