Art Historian and critic for Philly Artblog Group Andrea Kirsh was third to choose. She offers the following report. Note the Malevich… um, seriously, she moved a Malevich print to make room for me!

… your collage is hanging, as pictured, at the landing half-way up the stairs so that I see it head-on every time I descend from the 2nd floor—where our bedroom and my study are—to the ground floor living room, dining room and kitchen. That means I think about it a lot. I can’t say it was my favorite of those on view, in that I hadn’t selected a favorite while I was looking at the works hanging. I found many interesting for different reasons—but this one was clearly about painting, which is a subject I have thought about a lot, and the collage continues to fascinate and provoke me. It was also compelling from across the room when I had to make a hurried selection; I guess you’d say it has wall presence. The small print adjacent to it is: Malevich, Kazimor Arithmitic 1913 litho (approx ed: 400) 5 3/4″ x 3 3/4″ inserted between cover and p. 1 of A. Kruchenyka’s Let’s Grumble (published by Suet, St. Petersberg, 1913), which I was able to buy from a friend who is a dealer and passed on a good deal. Your work replaced the Malevich, which then replaced a drawing by Sharka Hyland, which I moved to replace a print that was on the first floor landing … It is good to put the works on paper away periodically, and I am serious about keeping them out of direct sunlight.

Andrea’s promise: “I will archive the artworks I have bought or been given over the past decade and decide whether they constitute a collection—and, if so, what characterizes it.”

Thanks to curator Homay King and Haverford’s John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities, VCAM – Visual Culture, Arts, and Media at Haverford College, and Haverford College Exhibits.