Comments on: Empire of Signs http://blog.sfmoma.org/2009/08/empire-of-signs/ Mon, 20 May 2013 02:07:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Kevin Killian http://blog.sfmoma.org/2009/08/empire-of-signs/comment-page-1/#comment-19142 Kevin Killian Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:48:37 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=5087#comment-19142 Hi there Tanya, thanks, I hope SF MOMA brings out the Iain Baxter Beauty Spots into the light of day. Maybe in your 75th anniversary celebrations?

John Z, thanks for supplying the name my brain just couldn’t remember. I knew it was Olle something, but I was thinking his name was Ali. Olle Baertling, now I won’t forget. OK, so let me think of an artist who died when I was eleven, someone for whom it would be preposterous for people to think I knew. Maybe–Stuart Davis? When did he die? Or Giorgio Morandi? Or it could be a writer, Ian Fleming and Edith Sitwell died when I was 11. Cole Porter.

]]> By: John Zurier http://blog.sfmoma.org/2009/08/empire-of-signs/comment-page-1/#comment-19138 John Zurier Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:41:55 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=5087#comment-19138 Thanks Kevin, the painter’s name is Olle Bærtling, the great Swedish modernist. Dahlgren would have been about 11 when Bærtling died.

]]> By: T http://blog.sfmoma.org/2009/08/empire-of-signs/comment-page-1/#comment-19097 T Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:04:14 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=5087#comment-19097 Thanks for the Crown Point link. The online representation of our collection doesn’t reflect that we have four of Baxter’s Reflected San Francisco Beauty Spots.

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