Tacoma-Born Painter, Michael Tetherow, is Dead (24. December 2007, 11:53 by Derek Young) ~ The World Is Here
Michael Tetherow was born in Tacoma in 1942. He attended the University of Puget Sound before heading off into the bigger world. He spent most of the last thirty years in New York. The New York Times once said that “Michael Tetherow is one of the few artists coming out of Abstract Expressionism whose work is consistently surprising and alive.” Tetherow moved to Denver last year where he died on December 15th.
Mr. Tetherow placed great emphasis on the physical nature of paint and painting, taking many of his cues from Abstract Expressionists like Clyfford Still. But his art had a Symbolist side as well, especially in the 1970s and early ’80s, when his large, thickly worked monochromes had eyelike ovals, either cut or painted, that stared out from their centers.
Link to the New York Times
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Nobody can write an obit headline like the NY Times. Their copywriting for obits is also some of the best in the business.
Interesting that Tetherow was able to survive U.P.S. during the time when the only reason to attend school there was to drink and draw nudes.
1 | Posted by Mofo from the Hood | Dec 26, 12:51 PM
If we’re gonna talk about U.P.S. and art and Tacoma, then I vote for retired U.P.S. professor Bill Colby. He was displaying art in Tacoma during the period Tetherow was a student—-and Colby still is going strong.
Anyone can leave Tacoma. It takes talent to stay here.
3 | Posted by Mofo from the Hood | Dec 26, 02:32 PM
4:10pm PST. This report just in:
Michael Tetherow is still dead.
4 | Posted by Mofo from the Hood | Dec 26, 05:02 PM
On the road of no return.
The great dream time.
The final curtain.
6 | Posted by Mofo from the Hood | Dec 26, 08:28 PM
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“Michael Tetherow is still dead.”
7 | Posted by Mofo from the Hood | Dec 27, 11:40 PM
Unavailable for comment.
In the seance greenroom.
Promoted to Glory.
8 | Posted by Mofo from the Hood | Dec 29, 07:06 PM
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