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Cotillion Ball by Louis Delsarte
The Redcross family has truly been devoted to their Otis Williams, the African art dealer, with his medicine
clients in the interest of art. October Gallery has made man sculpture from Ghana; or the late Andrew Turner
it their priority to educate everyone who has attended of Philadelphia with his painting of Miles Davis. It is this
the Philadelphia International Art Expo. Because of quality of work that keeps me coming back year after
their devotion, we all have grown and have learned to year.
understand the purpose and uniqueness of the art world
and what it stands for. It would have been easy for the Although I purchased my frst “real” piece of art in 1972,
Redcross family to just look at the commercial end of the each subsequent piece of art that I buy, whether it is
business, getting the people in the building, or securing sculpture, pottery or a painting, carries the same value as
a great sponsor; but their creation of October Gallery has that frst one.
truly lived up to its purpose of “Connecting People with
Art.” It doesn’t matter whether it was a video conference Art essentially comes down to a subjective approach
with the late great master painter Dr. John T. Biggers, that asks no more than, what does this sculpture, pottery
or highlighting nationally known artists such as Sidney or painting mean to me? The fnal analysis is what Mercer
Carter with his original work “Blood, Sweat and Tears”; and Evelyn are trying to teach all of us: art can refect the
whole richness of human possibility.
J.D. Gray
Education Representative, UAW Region 5
St. Louis, MO
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Cotillion Ball by Louis Delsarte
The Redcross family has truly been devoted to their Otis Williams, the African art dealer, with his medicine
clients in the interest of art. October Gallery has made man sculpture from Ghana; or the late Andrew Turner
it their priority to educate everyone who has attended of Philadelphia with his painting of Miles Davis. It is this
the Philadelphia International Art Expo. Because of quality of work that keeps me coming back year after
their devotion, we all have grown and have learned to year.
understand the purpose and uniqueness of the art world
and what it stands for. It would have been easy for the Although I purchased my frst “real” piece of art in 1972,
Redcross family to just look at the commercial end of the each subsequent piece of art that I buy, whether it is
business, getting the people in the building, or securing sculpture, pottery or a painting, carries the same value as
a great sponsor; but their creation of October Gallery has that frst one.
truly lived up to its purpose of “Connecting People with
Art.” It doesn’t matter whether it was a video conference Art essentially comes down to a subjective approach
with the late great master painter Dr. John T. Biggers, that asks no more than, what does this sculpture, pottery
or highlighting nationally known artists such as Sidney or painting mean to me? The fnal analysis is what Mercer
Carter with his original work “Blood, Sweat and Tears”; and Evelyn are trying to teach all of us: art can refect the
whole richness of human possibility.
J.D. Gray
Education Representative, UAW Region 5
St. Louis, MO
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