Remembering Morton Feldman on his birthday 🎂
With Jasper Johns at the Leo Castelli Gallery.
📷 Fred W. McDarrah, 1960
"If you don't have a friend who's a painter, you're in trouble."
Morton Feldman & John Adams by Betty Freeman, January 1987
Feldman's "Madame Press Died Last Week At Ninety", conducted by Adams
Another Betty Freeman photograph of Morton Feldman, 1987
"When I heard Morton Feldman's composition "For Frank O'Hara' at a concert, with its insistent but muted flow of sounds, like aural dabs of the brush, I remarked to Lucy, 'It's Guston 1953 in music'."
- Irving Sandler
🎨 Philip Guston, Zone, 1953
Morton Feldman wrote a piece For Philip Guston, in 1984
Irving Sandler quotes this story by Guston about Feldman in his memoir A Sweeper-Up After Artists.
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