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Mike Gordon on sun 1 jan 12


Mike Gordon

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/arts/helen-frankenthaler-abstract-
painter-dies-at-83.html?_r=3D1

http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/unspoken-dialogue-japanese-tea

http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/kawanabe-ky~{(-~}sai-and-hell-courtesan

Ric Swenson on mon 2 jan 12


One of the first to use acrylic paints in 1958...Helen was an innovator...a=
lovely person. A real Bennington College woman.

Former colleague

So sorry to hear about her loss. She taught me a lot through her painting.

veils.

like Stanley Rosen at Bennington College also, when I worked there. He wa=
s the glaze mavin. She was the paint mavin.

My friend Jim Goldstone..hollywood director..emmy for "Kent State" first e=
pisode of STAR TREK...Ironsides...'Winning' with Paul Newman...


Jim was a funny guy

also a Bennington grad.

doing magic.

like our friend John Addison....he played piano with my daughter at his ho=
me once.... a fun night. He won an oscar for the theme to TOM JONES and r=
etired in Bennington Vermont writing the ditty for 'Mystery She Wrote'

but I digress..



Ric




Ric Swenson, B.F.A, M.F.A.
Ceramist, Artist and Teacher.
Jing De Zhen Ceramic Institute
Jing De Zhen City,
Jiang Xi Province
China
Mobile: 86-13767818872



> Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 13:35:02 -0800
> From: clayart@EARTHLINK.NET
> Subject: for painters & potters
> To: Clayart@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
>
> Mike Gordon
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/arts/helen-frankenthaler-abstract-
> painter-dies-at-83.html?_r=3D1
>
> http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/unspoken-dialogue-japanese-tea
>
> http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/kawanabe-ky=A8=ADsai-and-hell-courtesan