Marvin Newman Beyond the Single Image – The New York Times

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Marvin Newman Beyond the Single Image

“Sequentially Sought,” an exhibition at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in Manhattan, showcases Marvin Newman’s sometimes tongue-in-cheek series from 1950s New York and Chicago.

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Over the years, Marvin Newman has repeatedly fixated on everything from old women’s calves and men sprawled out on park benches, to sewer covers and mannequin heads sporting hats.

“I saw one or two and thought, ‘Gee whiz, this really could be something so special if you really zero in on it