Robert Terry at Eugene Binder.(MARFA, TEXAS) From: Art in America | Date: October 1, 2005| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2005 Brant Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

For more than a decade, Robert Terry has been creating a series of modest but intense portraits of Abraham Lincoln. At first glance, the exhibition suggested a treasure trove of thrift-store finds: 14 clunky, sincere homages to the Civil War-era president. On closer inspection, the paintings revealed a striking consistency of hand, palette and scale. On 20-by-16-inch store-bought canvases (with staples showing around the edges), Lincoln's head, rendered in multicolored impasto, is centered on monochrome grounds of such unlikely hues as salmon, chartreuse or teal. Each portrait ...

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