Review Pays Tribute to ‘The Great Thomas Cornell’ (Portland Press Herald)

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Thomas Cornell, “Farm Pig,” 1974, engraving.

Art historian Daniel Kany, who regularly contributes reviews to the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, offers a glowing review of works by Thomas Cornell, who died last December after having taught 50 years at the College. The Priority of Nature, a collection of Cornell’s prints from the 1960s, is on display through September 27, 2013, at the June Fitzpatrick Gallery in Portland. “Cornell was a sophisticated printmaker and a deep thinker drawn to the explosively subversive potential of human nature,” writes Kany in the review. “The Priority of Nature shows Cornell understood the power of art.”