November 29, 2007
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For Gennie DeWeese:
A Long StoryFrom today’s online NY Times:Obituaries in the
News
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSPublished: [Wednesday]
November 28, 2007
Filed at 11:10 p.m. ETGennie DeWeese
BOZEMAN,
Mont. (AP) — Gennie DeWeese, an artist known for her landscape
paintings and woodblock prints whose works are displayed at museums
across the Northwest, died Monday [November 26, 2007]. She was 86.DeWeese died at her studio south of Bozeman. Dahl
Funeral
Chapel confirmed her death.Her first oil painting was of her dog, done when
she was 12
years old.In
1995, DeWeese received an honorary doctorate of fine arts from Montana
State University, and she received the Montana Governor’s Award for the
Arts.Robert
M. Pirsig in
Zen and the
Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
(April 1974) –“The
rhetoricians
of ancient Greece were the first teachers in the history of the Western
world. Plato
vilified them in all his works to grind an axe of his own and since
what we know about
them is almost entirely from Plato they’re unique in that they’ve stood
condemned throughout history without ever having their side of the
story told. The Church
of Reason that I talked about was founded on their graves. It’s
supported today by
their graves. And when you dig deep into its foundations you come
across ghosts.”I look at my
watch.
It’s after two.
“It’s a long story,” I say.“You should
write all
this down,” Gennie
says.Quod
erat
demonstrandum.
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