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Painting • Portrait
Victor Kalin was prolific and versatile. He was comfortable
in all media, including watercolor, gouche, woodcut, pen
and ink, oil, pastel. He made portraits of people he admired
-- with the exception of Richard Nixon. As an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War, he crosshatched Nixon, aimng to personify dishonesty and trickiness.
John Coltrane
Pen & Ink: drawing can be seen as the inside liner notes for Coltrane's signature album, A Love Supreme.
Duke Ellington
Watercolor
Charles Ives
Ray Nance
Odetta
Louis Armstrong
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