In trifling mixed media “graphics” of which the topical ttieme is the circus, Miss Beaumont attempts some quasi-abstract grotesquerie and caricature as well as a few essays in child-art primitivism, employing mannerisms patently derivative of Picasso in these veins. Distinguished influence notwithstanding, one finds here neither spiritedly casual sophistication on the one hand, nor vivacious naïveté on the other, but merely listless doodlings that smack rather uniformly of a jaded and varicose ennui.
—Palmer D. French
Marcel Duchamp, “Network of Stoppages,” oil on canvas, 58x78½", 1914 (damaged.) (Private Collection, New York.) Color Courtesy the Pasadena Art Museum.
December 1963
VOL. 2, NO. 6
