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Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing.
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Simplification is the essence of abstraction from which objective values are not necessarily eliminated.
Hans Hofmann
Thornton Willis
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Born:
May 25, 1936
Died:
June 15, 2025
(aged 89)
Bio:
Thornton Willis was an American abstract painter. He contributed to the New York School of painting since the late 1960s.
Known for:
The Life of Alfred M. Landon (1936)
Newton D. Baker and His Books (1954)
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