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The Strange Beauty of Linden Frederick's Maine

You Are Here at Center for Maine Contemporary Art

by Edgar Allen Beem

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<i>Halloween</i>
Linden Frederick, Halloween, 1994, Oil on canvas, 40 x 40 in.
Collection of Betsy and Edward Cohen
<em>Grange</em>
Linden Frederick, Grange, 1996, Oil on linen, 22 x 22 in.
Collection of Mary Herman and Angus King
<em>Fonda Fair</em>
Linden Frederick, Fonda Fair, 2004, Oil on linen, 30 x 30 inches
Courtesy of Forum Gallery, New York

In the 20th century, skillful, exacting imitation of appearances tended to fall from artistic grace as photography displaced painting as the medium of likeness. Henri Matisse, in helping to liberate painting from a mere description of reality, is famous for having said, "L'exactitude n'est pas la v

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