LINDA STEIN: An Artist of Contradictions
There are artists who work with brutal materials, using welding irons and chisels to bend metal and stone to their will, the floors of their studios littered with detritus. And there are artists who work at clean white tables, their pencils sharp, their paintbrushes pristine, everything in order.

Critics

Opinion: Fidgety Girl In a Sundress, Choice Chase at the Spanierman Gallery
You can't help but feel sorry for William Merritt Chase's daughters. Again and again he dragged them, stifling and itchy in starched white summer frocks and sunhats, with ribbons in their hair, clutching wilting bouquets of flowers, out into the scrubby fields around the Chase house in Shinnecock Hills, to stand around or sit in the grass for hours. Bored and hot, they would kick at things in the grass while he stood there at his easel making little motions with his brushes and shouting at them to stand still.