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Paintings II

PAINTINGS II

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Joel grew up in the Pelham Parkway neighborhood of the Bronx. His lovea affair with nature began in earnest in 1980, when he and Kate bought a lakeside camp in Dutchess County, New York, and turned it into a week-end retreat and studio.

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Self-taught American sculptor William Edmondson (1882–1951) was the ﬁrst African-American artist to receive a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art (1937).

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top, left to right: Empress of the blues, Bessie Smith; King Oliver, pioneering New Orleans trumpeter and band leader; bottom, left to right: Duke Ellington; King of Swing Benny Goodman; Lady Day, Billie Holiday; Count Basie.

entering from top right: Bill Powell and Myrna Loy, stars of the “Thin Man” ﬁlms of the 1940s, with their dog Asta. preceding them: Josephine Baker and her pet cheetah, Chiquita; Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt with their dog Fala; Frida Kahlo and h

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Manny and Beatrice Kopp, Joel’s parents.

Portrait of Kate’s parents, Rosemary and Bill O’Connell.

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Joel’s ﬁrst painting.

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After a snowstorm blanketed the Bronx when Joel was eight, he and some friends shoveled the sidewalk in front of their apartment. The other boys soon lost interest, but Joel kept at it until he had cleared the entire block. When he ﬁnished,

Joel and Freddy, his cousin, in Joel’s Bronx living room during World War II.