The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 64, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 26, 1973 Page: 3 of 36
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THE BAYTOWN SUN Wednesday, December 26, 1973
Artist Fasanella Takes His New Fame In Stride
NEW YORK (AP) - Now
that Ralph Fasanella has had a _
" an show, a week and top
New York [a steel plant,
book of his
organizer plans to continue same friends,” he goes on. 80 per cent and I’m in trouble,
pumping gas a couple of days a “Though, of course, a lot of I’ve resolved most of the prob-
good things have happened, lems and I find it difficult to
First, I’ve been selling; then, finish the last section.”
Fasanella, who interrupts
one sentence to start another
one in his eagerness to express
himself, is given to unre-
strained language. He is also
given to strong political opin-
ions and reeently.£ompleted a
painting called "The Water-
“You get into this beautiful- brighter today, but the;
looking building and there you have less experience,
see a collection of coffins, rep- says. “They don’t know v
resenting the last 25 years union is all about, tli
we’ve lived in America — the never had to work with
coffins of the Kermedys, Mai- hands. Without knowing
colm X, the kids in Mississippi, labor’s about a man’;
Kent State, all those killed in worth a damn cent. I
the fight for an ideal.” laborer has to know h<
Father of a 15-year-old read books. It takes
daughter and a 10-year-old son, blending of the two thin
Fasanella says the dream of become a full person.”
his life is to be able to talk to Fasanella says of his n
kids in schools and colleges acquired fame: “I feel gi
buildings with a central one and recount the history of the a way. But I don’t take
that looks like a palace from labor movement. myself. I’m just symbol
the outside,” he describes it. “Whink the kids are much the guy in the street, V
“You need the pressures and I’ve been on TV; I’ve h
experiences of work before you hibits around the countr
can be creative unless you’re a have prints coming out
genius," explains the casually- And there’s the new
dressed, chain-smoking artist. “Fasanella’s City,” witl
“I’m pretty much the same his paintings reproduced
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BAYTOWN HOUSING Authority employes and guests enjoyed dinner and a one-act play, “I’m
Herbert,” hosted by Baytown Little Theater. Attending the Christmas celebration were, left to
right, C R McNabb, vice chairman of Baytown Housing Authority; E. L. Coxson, chairman;
A1 Herring, Baytown Little Theater board member; E. C. Winegartner, and Ronn Haddox,
both commissioners. ' x .
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5 “We were the young leftists
T of our period, and we’d go to
meetings,” he recalls. “One of
the women in the .group hand-
J ed me some of her drawing pa-
— per and a piece of charcoal and
said, ‘Here, Ralph, you draw
something.’ I did a couple of
drawings and she said, ‘Ralph,
you’re an artist!’.”
He shrugs off the seeming
perfection of detail that has i
brought critical acclaim. “I A
just put in what I think im- ^
portant. Take a huge building. kI
If it has thousands of bricks, I ■
don’t put in every brick. I just IS§§
give the impression of thou-
ib the es-
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sence of the thing.
The concept of a painting of-
ten “bugs” him from six
months to two or three years
before he roughly sketches it in
six or seven lines. “Then the
whole thing develops itself. I
look at things in many dif-
ferent ways, all related to each
other. I see it all clearly In my
mind, see all the things coming
out. I kind of make the canvas
react to me.”
Most of the some 150 paint-
ings he has done are large, and
up-toa-yearag&when the.fam-
ily moved to a house in Ards-
ley, N.Y., with extra-high ceil-
ings to accommodate them,
space was a problem. He re-
members having to finish the
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Though he usually has “a vi-
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size caanvas to start on, he
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 64, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 26, 1973, newspaper, December 26, 1973; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1104625/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.