Don Eddy: The Resonance of Realism in the Art of Post War America: Acknowledgments

I would like to acknowledge, with gratitude, the advice and assistance offered by Lydia Bonito, Marguerite Zappa, Mary Dellin, Lisa Goldberg, Tonia Ceraolo, Barbara Staempfli, Joe Sergio, David Gustafson, Frank Mrizaj, and Charles Danziger, Esq., in the various phases of research, editing and production of this manuscript.

I would also like to gratefully acknowledge the contact persons at VAGA, the Artists Rights Society, Louis K. Meisel, of the Louis K. Meisel Gallery, Richard and Monica Segal, Sarah Eddy, and the personnel in the photographic departments of the Albright -Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Commerce Graphics Ltd., Inc., NY; The Courtauld Gallery, London; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; and The Museum of Modern Art, NY for the considerations extended in granting the use of images in this text. Special thanks also to Don Eddy for allowing the reproduction of his paintings.

I would like to take the opportunity, here, as well, to recognize and to thank patient family members and friends who for too long have heard about my obligations to this project and not to them.

This text would not be complete without a special acknowledgment of the contribution by the art historian, Alvin Martin, to the Contemporary American Realist movement. He was a friend to Don Eddy, and among his other work on the Realists, he had begun a monograph on Don. With Dr. Martin's untimely death, the manuscript was lost. However, as is obvious by such articles as "Modern Realism is Really Real Modernism," (in Real, Really Real, Super Real, Direction in Contemporary American Realism [San Antonio: San Antonio Museum Association, 1981], his buyoant enthusiasm and understanding of the contributions to our culture base being made by Don and his colleagues still echo in the literature on the subject. It was my privilege in the writing of this text to take up the banner he held high so early on and with such clarity of vision.

Finally I would like to offer sincere thanks to Marie-Claude Fischer (Artregister Network) for the extraordinary good will, support and talent she has dedicated to this project, for the countless hours hearing about it and gladly given over to the production of it, and especially for seeing a value in it.

	DON EDDY: THE RESONANCE OF REALISM IN THE ART OF POST WAR AMERICA An art history monograph Internet publication by Virginia Anne Bonito, 1999. Published by ArtregisterPress.com. © Virginia Anne Bonito, 1999. All rights reserved.
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