ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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am deeply grateful to all the lenders to this exhibition for allowing their works to be seen by a larger public. Special thanks are due for their invaluable assistance to Philippe Alexandre and Marie Evans, Alexandre Gallery; James Barron, James Barron Art; Lori
Bookstein and Joseph Bunge, Bookstein Projects; Eric Brown, Eric Brown Arts Group; Ulrika and Joel Citron, and Mary Anne Butler; Lorraine DeLaney; Colby College Museum of Art; Patricia Magnani, Registrar, and Tracy Fitzpatrick, Neuberger Museum of Art; the Paul Georges Estate; Costas Grimaldis, C. Grimaldis Gallery; Henry Justin, Center for Figurative Painting; Wolf Kahn; Albert Kresch and Elizabeth Kresch; Heidi Lange, D.C. Moore Gallery; Alicia G. Longwell, Parrish Art Museum; Jessica May and Jaime DeSimone, Portland Museum of Art, ME; David Moos, David Moos Art Advisory; Mariska Nietzman, Paul Kasmin Gallery; Hart Perry; Blair and Paul Resika; Nathan Resika; John and Tania Secor; Rex Stevens, Estate of Grace Hartigan; and Diana Urbaska. I am indebted to Stephen Hannock for initially involving me in this project and to Leslie Pell van Breen and Deborah Thompson of The Artist Book Foundation for their crucial expertise and hard work, and to Ahmad Yassir for his contributions. My thanks to Danny Lichtenfeld, director, and Mara Williams, chief curator, of the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center for their enthusiastic support of Figuration Never Died, and especially to Sarah Freeman, exhibitions manager, whose tireless efforts made the exhibition a reality. Karen Wilkin July 2020
Robert De Niro, Sr., detail of Nude in Armchair, 1963. Oil on canvas, 321/8 x 25 5/8 in. (81.6 × 65.1 cm). The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Gift of the artist. 98.46. © The Estate of Robert De Niro, Sr. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY. Digital image © Whitney Museum of American Art / Licensed by Scala / Art Resource, NY.
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