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A conversation with Rackstraw Downes.(Interview)

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| December 01, 2005 | Yezzi, David | COPYRIGHT 2005 Foundation for Cultural Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

DAVID YEZZI: You came to this country first as a teenager?

RACKSTRAW DOWNES: I came here because of jazz, and I went to a prep school in Connecticut. There was a man there who'd freshly graduated from under Josef Albers and was very, very full of this enthusiasm and so on. It was very fresh to me coming out of England. England, you know, didn't really catch on to the idea of modern, twentieth-century painting very fast. There were very few modern paintings around, very, very few, and there was nothing in the museums, really. I came here and went to MOMA and then out to Philadelphia and saw the Arensberg Collection, and I was absolutely astonished. I mean there ...

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