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An Abundance Of Art
By DAN PEARSON
Day Arts Writer
Published on 2/20/2003
A preoccupation with surface emotion seems to pervade many of Andy Warhol's well-known works. Yet in �Hand Painted Flower,� Warhol mixes watercolors and a collage of magazine and newspaper clippings to personalize and fashion a simple flower.
Warhol Satisfaction
The flower represents not so much an artist resigned to a detachment from a primitive beauty, but an artist working almost transcendentally through the modern detritus to preserve something natural and enduring.
�Hand Painted Flower,� however, is one of only two dozen images featured in �Works by Warhol,� an exhibition of drawings and silk screens created by Warhol between 1974 to 1986. The exhibition, which opens Sunday at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum, runs until April 20, and comes to New London on loan from the Wes and Missy Cochran Collection in LaGrange, Ga.
In addition to �Hand Painted Flower,� the exhibition includes, among others, silk screens of such luminaries as John Wayne, Mick Jagger and Teddy Roosevelt, images of Disney characters, two �Moonwalk� pieces from an unfinished series on television, and several works examining the American Indian and the West including images of General Custer, Geronimo and Annie Oakley.
The Lyman Allyn is at 625 Williams St. in New London. The museum is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat. and 1-5 p.m. Sun. Admission is $5 adults, $4 seniors and students, and free to New London residents and children under 8. Call 443-2545.
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