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News Dealer No 1
News Dealer No 1
Artist (1914 - 1997)

News Dealer No 1

Date1947
DimensionsSight: 22 3/4 × 27 5/8 in. (57.8 × 70.2 cm)
Object numberN0005.2008
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Jane Ferrara, in memory of Ron Ferrara
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextThis painting was inspired by an actual blind news dealer that Fasanella knew from a Bronx subway station in the 1930s. Something about the man's innocence in the midst of pervasive mass media trash stuck with the artist, who painted at least two versions of this subject.
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5798 STATE HIGHWAY 80
COOPERSTOWN NY, 13326
607-547-1400

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