Amazingly Small World

Hi- I was talking in class Wed. about how one of my best friends for over 30 years is the grand nephew of art critic Clement Greenberg. Having known Bob so long, I never knew this little factoid until this past Monday when he called. Ok, so, my daughter Ellie and husband, James, stay with Bob on Thursday in Dallas while Ellie was visiting a little college as a perspective student. She is really into ceramics and took a bowl she made to Bob and his wife as a thankyou gift. It turns out Bob's wife, Elise, throws pots at her neighbor's house across the street. Elise takes Ellie over to her neighbor's ceramic studio to meet the owner, Louise Rosenfield. It turns out that Louise is a BIG patron of ceramic artists and everyyear sponsers a gallery showing for them where she picks up the gallery's cut so that the artists get the entire profit of their sale. When she hears that Ellie is from Wichita, Louise asks her if she's ever heard of Ted Adler. Ellie tells her that her nut mother is an art student at WSU. Then, Louise takes her inside her house to show her the pieces she owns made by Ted. He even stayed at their house once. So, check out Ted Adler's artwork/website. One more little snippet of info. Bob tells me Vincent Van Gogh's "The Potato Eaters" was his first painting in color. It is a small world. ann