Painting with Fire: Masters of Enameling in America, 1930-1980

摘要

In 1950 Kalman Kubinyi, an enormously talented and highly versatile artist, together with his wife, the prominent Cleveland-based enamelist Doris Hall, and their two children, Moisha and Laszlo, left their home in northeastern Ohio for exciting new opportunities on the coast of New England. They left behind a community where they had each grown up, attended school, and matured artistically. In Cleveland, their chosen medium - the art of enameling - was widely produced, regularly shown, and enthusiastically collected. Their move to Massachusetts offered the young couple a unique opportunity to grow creatively and advance their artistic horizons to a new national arena. Kubinyi captured his young familys excitement about a world of expanding personal and creative possibilities when he wrote in his journal, "Our graphic phase was behind us ... ahead was a wonderful world of color fused in glass . . . painting with fire!"