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Show 24 Tooele Bulletin, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 1982 Older Artlsfi by Margery Byen Cilbert Stuart painted a portrait of John Adams in 1826 when he was 71, Benjamin West was 81 in 1819 when he executed a self portrait, Benjamin Franklin invented the bifocal lens when he was in his 70s and Verdi composed "Otello when he was 73. Youre only as old as you feel' and age is a state of mind may be hackneyed expressions, but they also are true. Some people are old at 21, others young at 80, or as Oliver Wendell Holmes put it, To be 70 years young is sometimes more hopeful than to Ire 40 years old. The image of grandpa and grandma doing little but telling stories, rocking and knitting sweaters is less valid now than ever before. For generations, many wntnmmwml FrtpjKfacdicd -- aa m memliers of the graying" population have rightly rebelled against these stereoin types, and many more large part, because there really are many more of them - are doing so today. Indeed, older Americans are the fastest growing segment of our population. One of every seven Americans is 60 years old or over, and that figure is expected to increase. Older Americans have become a powerful political force as well; organized into nationwide groups, they have tirelessly lobbied Congress to revise or abolish mandatory retirement ages, seeking to prove that age is no barrier to creativity and inspira- - tion. m N"TOOELE FEDERAL CREDIT UNIO- The careers of older artists who continued to work well into their later years is a testament to the older Americans cause. Thomas Hart Benton died at 85 in 1975, a few hours after mural in his maintained each mural working on a studio, lie had for years that would be his last Im just too old to do all that climbing of ladder!. Maria Martinez, the San - lldefonso pueblo potter, created her world- - renowned black pottery until she was in her 90s. Crandma Moses, who died at 101, began to paint at 76 when her arthritic fingers could no longer embroider. Henri Matisse, confined to his bed, cut out brightly colored paper patterns which were acclaimed In a tribute to the dedication and vision of older artists such as these, the paintings of older Americans have been highlighted in a 1982 wall calender published to commemorate the White House Conference on Aging. The calendar contains 12 paintings from the collection of the Smithsonians National Museum of American Art; almost all the works, including paintings by Ceorge Inness, Georgia O'Keeffe, Cilbert Stuart, Alma Thomas and Benjamin West, were created by artists after the age of 60. when they were on exhibit Just as a painting is far 24 years after his death at more than the pigment that adds the color or the wood 84 in 1954. Artist John Crabach that nmakes the stretchers avoided admitting his age so, too, creative genius is but, when he died in 1981, more than technique or his World War I draft card even vision, Dr. Robert N. revealed that he was 101. Butler, Director of the NaHe never stopped produc- tional Institute on Aging, wrote in an introduction to ing paintings. the calendar. ... By viewing the paintings of these artists, we see that beauty and genius are ageless and that creative imagination is not limited by time. Time has certainly been no obstacle to Ceorgia O'Keeffe, now 94. As famous as she has been indomitable, OKeeffe has long refused to let poor vision stop her from painting. Laurie Lisle, in "Portrait of An Artist, A Biography of Ceorgia OKeeffe, writes of this instinct for artistic survival despite shadowy demanding junior high Peggy Bacon, now 86 school teacher who expectis ed her students to excel. known for incisive and penstudio. Well- - educated and a New York City sculptor etrating caricatures as well of a middle- - class member for illustrations exas still approxiSeymour Lipton, black family, she had a traordinarily vigorous at mately 60 books. Over the personality and a of lost strong little 78, has said he feels like a decades, she and man of 40. He's lean and the freshness and frankness flair for the dramatic, to dedicated she was totally of her youth, and her wit tough and in top shape, students. and her her art She has of delighted everyone. Harry Rand, curator 20th- - century painting and was suffering from a joint She found young people sculpture at the National disease when she turned 80, stimulating, enjoyed being Museum of American Art, but her humor surfaced surrounded by her proteges and provided scholarships says. He gets up at 6 and, even then. to promising students. Enwere bones his grindMy by 8, hes wrestling ergetic and enthusiastic, sculpture together. ing together you could she continually worked to said the at she hear them, With his strong right time. They made reports perfect the techniques of hand, developed partially like a pistol. She was gi- her craft. vision: of tournament tenHandicapped by arthriven a false hip of steel and "She even courageously by years she sallied forth to nis, manipulates Lipton tis, two months and proudly remarked that shears. I'm plastic, spent art openings huge cutting Washington and the of her new way in prohospital seeing still Lipton mised to use a cane which with a gold- - headed cane -exploring," color and shadow, light, To me, sculpshe called a peculiar and and continued to create her line was interesting and explains. ture is a great adventure, dreadful A number that it gave her new paintlooking thing with joyful paintings. and always fresh. of exhibit at these on are unending treads on it. ing ideas. . . OKeeffe There is no such as of National Museum the thing on When of learned to take tubes complimented a is that Art American in just Washingmaturity her remarkabke recovery, paint to her housekeeper, word. The creative person she retorted: The surgeons ton, D.C. through Feb. 22, ask her to read out loud the who loses the spontaneity these miracles and 1982. names of the colors on the and naivete of his child- perform old battered relics Thomas used her kitchen labels and then, with the hood becomes an academi- they get back on their feet again. or living room as a studio, cian. What you gain with the huge canvases My face looks as if it'd propping experience is a sense of been ploughed. Im not on her lap or balancing control but my next piece them on a sofa. She painted really very vain but 1 dont is as exciting as the drawlike to look dilapidated. with a Arm stroke, but she soak her arthritis ings I made in public Although partially blind, had to school. she continued to paint in hands in hot water to enIt usually takes many her Maine home with a able her to hold a paint brush. years for artists to attain re- magnifying glass mounted Theres nothing like illto her drawing board. cognition and, despite Alma Thomas, who lived aching knees when you get ness, a sense of humor can feed their creativity long in Washington, D.C., did old, she once told Adolafter many of their contem- not begin to paint seriously phus Ealey, director of the Barnett- - Aden Gallery in poraries have retired to until she was in her 60s, Do you have Washington. rocking chairs. following many years as a any idea what it's like to be caged in a body and to have the mind and If energy of a I could only turn the clock back. Id show them. 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