With only a trace of sarcasm, Critic Henry McBride, who disapproves of photographic art, opined that Luigi Lucioni was already the most popular U. S. painter since Gilbert Stuart. Other modernists ...

This week the Russian-born Brooklyn cabinetmaker was 78, and on his way to minor fame in the screwball wing of primitive (self-taught) art. Fifteen of his “primitives” were on exhibit in a ...