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Whitney documents DeFeo repeatedly building thick oil paint, carving it back, and embedding structural materials over nearly eight years.
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1929–1989
San Francisco–based artist whose material experimentation and long process on The Rose complicate any narrow New York-only account of postwar abstraction.
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Whitney documents DeFeo repeatedly building thick oil paint, carving it back, and embedding structural materials over nearly eight years.
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