FIU Professor Of Visual Arts

April 19th, 2014 - Coconut Grove, FL

RICHARD DUNCAN

Professor of Visual Arts at the International University of Florida

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Letter received on February 14, 2005, after professor Duncan had visited Mr. George J. Horak�s exposition at the Museum of the Americas.

Sally, and our friend, and I found your show very moving. If you want

to boost your morale just look at other landscape painters in the malls

or art fairs and galleries. Yours makes theirs look like adolescent

schlock. But that is not the point. The point is that you say

something in your work; that you have "engaged" the subject and created

a reality, not an allusion to or suggestion of; but rather a very

individually selected experience based upon observation and experience

that, strangely, few people even begin to approach. You've also

inspired me to reinvigorate the cleaning out of my studio with the

intention of learning to be a painter - and a natural world one at

that. I'll have to go some to even begin to catch up to to your work,

though. I hope I have the discipline to try. dick

February 14, 2005