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From: New Criterion | Date: October 1, 2002| Author: Kunitz, Daniel | Copyright information

Apostate from abstraction; doubter of heroic "American-type" painting in the fifties and sixties; anti-progressivist champion of underdog artists from Andre Derain and Balthus to Jean Helion and Alberto Giacometti: the American painter Leland Bell (1922-1991) was a natural dissenter from prevailing trends, a heretic in the face of aesthetic orthodoxies. Like his favored artists, Bell was something of an unclassifiable maverick, and, not one to seek the spotlight, his work has suffe...

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