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TT: Acquisition

November 12, 2008 by Terry Teachout

%2816%29%20FRIEDMAN%20LANDSCAPE.JPGFor the past few years I’ve been writing at odd intervals about Arnold Friedman, a little-known American painter whom I once described in the Washington Post as “the greatest artist you’ve never heard of.” (You can read more about him here and here.) Along the way I tracked down and bought four of his lithographs, all of which I cherish, but I took it for granted that I’d never be able to afford an oil painting by Friedman.

Very much to my surprise, a small Friedman oil turned up on eBay a few weeks ago, and after a modest amount of preliminary dickering, I was able to persuade the owner to part with it at a price that was well within my modest means. It’s called “Landscape,” and my educated guess is that it was painted around 1940. Mrs. T hasn’t seen it yet–she’s up in Connecticut–but I think she’s going to like the latest addition to the Teachout Museum. I hope you do, too.

TT: Snapshot

November 12, 2008 by Terry Teachout

The “Public Melody Number One” musical sequence from Raoul Walsh’s 1937 film Artists and Models, staged by Vincente Minnelli and featuring Louis Armstrong and Martha Raye. Raye darkened her skin with makeup in order to appear on screen with Armstrong:

(This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)

TT: Almanac

November 12, 2008 by Terry Teachout

“One is safe if one is still able to risk.”
Helen Frankenthaler (quoted in the New York Times, Apr. 27, 2003)

Terry Teachout

Terry Teachout, who writes this blog, is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. In addition to his Wall Street Journal drama column and his monthly essays … [Read More...]

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About “About Last Night”

This is a blog about the arts in New York City and the rest of America, written by Terry Teachout. Terry is a critic, biographer, playwright, director, librettist, recovering musician, and inveterate blogger. In addition to theater, he writes here and elsewhere about all of the other arts--books, … [Read More...]

About My Plays and Opera Libretti

Billy and Me, my second play, received its world premiere on December 8, 2017, at Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach, Fla. Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, closed off Broadway at the Westside Theatre on June 29, 2014, after 18 previews and 136 performances. That production was directed … [Read More...]

About My Podcast

Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I are the panelists on “Three on the Aisle,” a bimonthly podcast from New York about theater in America. … [Read More...]

About My Books

My latest book is Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington, published in 2013 by Gotham Books in the U.S. and the Robson Press in England and now available in paperback. I have also written biographies of Louis Armstrong, George Balanchine, and H.L. Mencken, as well as a volume of my collected essays called A … [Read More...]

The Long Goodbye

To read all three installments of "The Long Goodbye," a multi-part posting about the experience of watching a parent die, go here. … [Read More...]

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