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Two Fishermen
Art in America, Sept, 2004 by Irene Overman Kreer
To the Editors:
I read the last paragraph of Raphael Rubinstein's article on John Currin [A.i.A., June/July '04] with special interest, in that his recent painting, Fishermen (2002), surely owes a debt to Winslow Homer's The Herring Net(1885), which is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Irene Overman Kreer
Glenview, Ill.
Raphael Rubinstein replies: Many thanks to Irene Kreer for pointing out a possible source of Currin's Fishermen. I find the notion of a Homer-Currin connection particularly intriguing since in my article I singled out Fishermen, a painting which the artist says was inspired by a dream, as an instance of Currin moving away from his reliance on older styles and specific source images. Now, it seems, this painting, too, maybe a restatement of an art-historical precedent. But this doesn't mean that Fishermen falls into the pastiche that limits much of Currin's other work. On the contrary, flit is indeed indebted, consciously or not, to Homer's The Herring Net, it is also a novel transformation of the original.
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