Photo Archive
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other children were painting pictures of mommy and daddy, dogs
and cats, clouds and houses. I recall the sheer joy of applying
paint. I also recall the smell of gasoline. I can still feel the
scrubbing of the gas-soaked rag on my cheeks and the dabbing between
my fingers to get all the paint out. I didn't
mind the paint at all. I wore it like a second skin as long as I could.
At least that's what the older me likes to think.
Sandy at age 3, having just finished painting everything he could reach with green, oil, house paint. 1950 |
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In high school, my best friend, Jack Ward, and I knew we were artists. It was the school counselor who couldn't figure it out. He said I was too intelligent to take art courses. Art was for dummies. High School graduation photograph, 1965. |
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1980 photograph, taken in Sandy's studio, by Stuart Klipper.
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This image was used as a post card announcement for a 1987 exhibition at Marcus / Gordon Gallery, in Pittsburgh. Inside the basement Etching studio, taken by Tom Kimmel.
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2000
image taken in Cathy Caraccio's studio,
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Albi, France 2005, photo by Gale Murray