◇ After
I Want YOU for U.S. Army · James Montgomery Flagg, 1917
The recruiting pose sits at right on this test sheet: star-banded top hat, blue tailcoat, the finger foreshortened straight at the viewer, the figure Black. The raccoon and the Lincoln and Obama overprints share the sheet.
“After” is the old gallery word for a work made in open conversation with another. It is a lineage, not a shortcut.
◇ Piece Room
No owners on the platform yet. The room is waiting for the first.