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A year ago, I bought a copy of Jestina’s Reds, a lithograph by the American painter Nell Blaine, and hung it over my mantelpiece. It was the first work of art I had ever purchased. Since then, I have bought fourteen others, nearly all of them prints—lithographs, etchings, screenprints, monotypes—by such noted modern American artists as Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, Helen Frankenthaler, John Marin, and Fairfield Porter. The living room of my New York apartment, on whose white walls these pieces hang, now looks like a gallery.
As recently as a decade ago, it would never have occurred to me to buy an art print, for the very good reason that I had spent next to no time visiting galleries or museums. Today, though, my involvement with the visual arts is a passion. In addition to the pieces on my walls, I own dozens of books about art, ranging from slender collections of criticism to fat catalogues raisonnés. Whenever I travel to other cities, large or small, I go out of my way to visit their museums. I even contribute occasional art reviews to the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.
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