Charles Jencks, Post-Modernism: The New Classicism in Art and Architecture, Rizzoli, New York © 1987 …These intentional mixtures of time and place are not disturbing because of the overriding unities of mood and style. A lyrical celebration of the birth of wine – of...
Cornell, Theresa Woody-Rhodes Interview, Maine Public Broadcasting Network, April 1986 One of the images in the painting that I am most pleased with and I think has importance, is the image of the father with the two children. If you look through Western art, it is...
Philip Isaacson, Maine Sunday Telegram, May 11, 1986 Cornell, after two years of work, has just completed and installed a 22-foot series of paintings entitled “The Four Seasons.” …In this age, the panels are an exceptional achievement in figurative art. Sensual,...
George M. Tapley, Jr., Arts Magazine, February 1983 Thomas Cornell’s (ambitions) are mythic… Like the greatest interpreter of this subject, Poussin, Cornell adumbrates a personal vision, updating the actors and the setting, and going for the spirit (not the...
Paul Smith, Arts Magazine, February 1982 Thomas Cornell’s paintings and prints always presented a message… In the early ‘60’s, he portrayed French revolutionary figures clearly out of sympathy with the revolution. He went on to print illustrated broadsides about civil...
