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Janet Sobel: Gary Snyder Fine Art. (Reviews: New York).(Brief Article)
Artforum International, April, 2002 by Worth, Alexi
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Janet Sobel probably never read Clement Greenberg's glancing tribute to her in his revised 1955 essay "'American-Type' Painting," but the passage has become an obligatory pit stop in discussions of her puzzling, newly resuscitated career. Back in 1944 at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century gallery, Greenberg recalls, "Pollock (and I myself) admired [Sobel's] pictures rather furtively....
The effect, and it was the first really 'all-over' one that I had ever seen.., was strangely pleasing." You'd think the implication that Sobel had some role in Pollock's ...
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