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Charles Carpenter

CHARLES CARPENTER was an art collector from Pittsburgh. This excerpt is from his 1991 memoir written for his family.

Remembering Reinhardt

By Charles Carpenter

I was baffled. I saw only black paintings. I could not figure out the enthusiasm. That worried me, because I knew that others were seeing something in those pictures which I did not.

Plan for “Ad Reinhardt Museum” by Charles Carpenter, 1962.
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MAY 2023

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