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Fall 2005 Departments
Exchange
Prerequisite
Extended Family
Foundation News
Alumni Connections
Class Notes
Zip 01003
Books Received
Alumni Photos
Features
Raising His Game
Never Mind the Weather?
If You Can Make it There
Peg Riley Wants a New Drug
A Capitol Guy
What They've Learned
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Class Notes
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Close Encounters
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—Linda Smith
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Chuck Close
John, 1971-1972; Acrylic on gessoed canvas; 100 x 90 inches;
Chuck Close, Courtesy PaceWildenstein; Photo by Ellen Page Wilson, Courtesy PaceWildenstein;
The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Collection, Los Angeles |
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A PAINTING BY FORMER UMASS Amherst art instructor, Chuck Close, sold recently at Sotheby’s for a whopping $4,832,000.00. “John (1971-72),” acrylic on gessoed canvas measuring 100” x 90”, is a portrait of the late John Roy, a professor in the UMass Amherst Department of Fine Arts from 1965 until his retirement in 1994. John was the last of Close’s 11-piece portrait heads series, which he began in 1967 with the black and white “Big Self Portrait.” Close received an honorary doctorate degree from UMass Amherst in 1995. He lives and paints in New York City. |
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