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- Written by: Ken Furtado
Today, June 3, 2015, is the 113th anniversary of the birth of George Quaintance, and I'm happy to have exciting news to mark the date. I have written before about the painting, Kanaka Fisherman, which is the only canvas Quaintance is known to have painted more than once. You can click here to read about the three fishermen.
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After ten years and dozens of publishers' rejections, the George Quaintance biography that John and I coauthored is available as an ebook. John passed away in 2013, and in 2014, I made a New Year's resolution to create an ebook version by year's end. I completely re-wrote every chapter, adding about 12,000 words to the original
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These two items are from George Quaintance's scrapbooks. The image on the left appears to be a page from Coronet magazine, which began publishing in 1936. The image on the right appears to be a newspaper clipping. There is no explanatory information for either image, although Robert of Fifth Avenue was a department store that employed Quaintance in the 1930s.
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What becomes of an artist's legacy when there is no exhibition history, no clear estate, and no body of written work or other documentation to authenticate it? In the case of George Quaintance, it disturbs me to see so many paintings and drawings that are represented as his.