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Published on: 8/17/2005
Last Visited: 8/17/2005
By Pete Warzel
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I do not have the citation in front of me but somewhere in Earl Stroh's critical writing, or in a statement from a catalog of one of his numerous exhibitions over the years, he said that serious art is always ethical.True or not, that is precisely how he did the work, lived the work, for a full lifetime.
Most of that life was spent in Taos; at the Wurlitzer Foundation, then at his elegantly simple home in Talpa, which was as much studio as house.But he was singularly a citizen of the world; grown as an Easterner in Buffalo, New York, lived in New York City and Paris, trekked through Bolivia, hospitalized in Rio de Janeiro and traveled throughout Europe chasing the wisdom of his predecessors in art.Examining now his intricately accomplished paintings one is hard pressed to find who he always said was an early influence in Bruegel the Elder.But he is there, as are others Earl deemed fit for an ethical provenance.
At a party in Denver for the unveiling of what is now his last completed oil, Earl disdained the meaning of any particular painting.
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Pete Warzel lives and writes in Denver.He has known Earl as friend and neighbor in Talpa for many years.Pete has published fiction and nonfiction in national magazines and is a staff writer for "Southwest Book Views."