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Survey of Pa. art 1900-1950 studious, not splashy.

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From: Morning Call (Allentown, PA)
Date: 20070816
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Byline: Geoff Gehman

Aug. 16--In 2001 the Michener Museum in Doylestown presented "Artists of the Commonwealth," a fairly splashy survey of paintings created during the latter half of the 20th century by native and honorary Pennsylvanians. There was an Andy Warhol silkscreen of a neon-wigged Aretha Franklin and a Jamie Wyeth oil of a wild Maine islander the artist considers part boy, part girl and part fish.

The sequel of circa 1900-1950 works now at the Michener is more studious than splashy. Major movements are dutifully footnoted. Students of Howard Pyle, the patriarch ...

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