This exhibition provides the viewer with the opportunity to compare and contrast the paintings of four individuals, each of whom was aware of and functioned in an art rich environment that influenced them in different ways over time. Albert Kresch and Leland Bell were colleagues and close friends, living and working in New York City, each absorbing - adapting or rejecting - in their own ways, the many different influences of the post-World War II years. Their chance meeting led to a close, lifelong friendship.
Both daughters had the benefit of being exposed to the artistic movements and controversies that influenced their parents’ generation, along with those that raged in their decades of growth and maturation. Again, each of these next generation painters has been exposed to and accepted, rejected or adapted a myriad of movements, philosophies, styles and subject matters. Here, in FATHERS and DAUGHTERS, is a small sample of the results, stretching from the 1940s to the current year.
