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Hampton’s August thoughts

It is over 50 years since Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner moved
from Greenwich Village out to Springs. David Salle spends full-time
now with a new house built at Sagonapack and Julian Schnabel in
1982 had restored his house at Montauk. Chuck Close and Sandro Chia
also are there. Willem de Kooning’s daughter Lisa de Kooning,
up in East Hampton’s Northwest Woods, has now turned her father’s
great modern studio off Springs Fireplace Road into a foundation
which will be accessible to researchers and on a limited basis to
the interested public. There, movingly, de Kooning’s last painting
made before he gave in to the final stages of Alzheimer’s stands
unfinished on the easel. Robert Dash, a landscape painter who moved
to abstraction later in life, thinks ‘we have more painters
in this area than all Italy had in the quattrocento’. This
might just be an underestimate.

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