Eric, it was probably an exhibit of the work of Albert Pinkham Ryder, and
I'm not sure whether the deteroration of the paintings was so much
intentional as careless, but others on the list will know more than I
about Ryder.  Interesting that you remember it as "experimentation."

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On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Eric Siegel wrote:

>    Does anyone here remember the exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of a 20th
>    century painter who was widely admired for his experimentation with
>    materials, and even admired because of the transience of the
>    materials he used? [forgotten the name, of course, it was in the early
>    90's that Brooklyn did this show] We went to this exhibition with an
>    artist friend who was really taken with the work, most of which had
>    blackened and peeled to a kind of brown mess.  It stuck in my head,
>    not for the aesthetic pleasure, but because I had never before
>    encountered the idea that artists would intentionally work with
>    transient materials.
>
>    Eric Siegel
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