“It transformed rich black walnut, oak, cherry and other hardwoods into plain, gessoed and gilded frames.”

“His highly crafted paintings consist of 30 to 50 smoothed and sanded coats of oil, graphite and pigment layered over gessoed wood.”

“For one thing, she painted on gessoed canvas instead of using the acrylic-soaked-into-raw-canvas method that Noland, Louis and others favored.”