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San Francisco

Robert Watson

Maxwell Galleries

By Walter Hopps

ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG’S HOLIDAY RUSE (NIGHT SHADE), 1991

Print May 2000

BEST OF THE ’90s: BOOKS

Print December 1999

WALTER HOPPS HOPPS HOPPS

Print February 1996

The catalogue’s claim is that Robert Watson is “one of the worthier living American painters, born in Martinez, California, 1923.” Considering this specific datum, the claim is undoubtedly accurate. Watson’s paintings consist of spacious vistas . . . huge spacious empty vistas . . . huge architectural empty remnants . . . tiny figures . . . empty tiny figures contemplating vast empty vistas . . . empty. The color tonality is best described as blue-green throughout.

––Walter Hopps

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