Comments on: The Exile’s End (concluding “Another Story of Artistic Exile”)

By: Andrea Lea

Andrea Lea — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 10:03:32 +0000

Dean Fleming: I remember you wrote me once, saying “I wish I was there beside you sitting on something soft…”

Pat Lannan intercepted your note and made a joke of it as he felt you were trying to entice me with sweet words to gain an advantage–in other words, access to himself

How are you, Dean? Good to stumble upon you after all these years. For more than a decade, I managed to keep my art collection intact, including the green/black/orange hard-edge piece that you gave me around 1967 while I was curator of the Museum of the Lannan Foundation. Unfortunately, at a certain point in my life, circa 1979, all of my collection was removed from a building where it was stored in Pensacola, Florida, and never seen again.

A few words from you would be welcome. My husband and I live near the Suwannee River in North Florida and are contemplating a move to Oregon in the spring. My son lives in Portland, my older daughter and her family reside in San Francisco; younger daughter Jodi with Zac and baby are returning to Colorado from Hawaii where we hope to intercept them on our way West. If it makes any sense, we might make a loop to Libre?

In any event, Dean Fleming, I wish you all the best…hope to hear from you,

Andrea Lea (formerly Andrea Bellis)

By: betsy rich

betsy rich — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:43:08 +0000

As we speak I live at Libre and have for 22 years. I met Dean Fleming at Libre’s 3rd birthday (it is now going on 43.) A couple of corrections. Libre was never intended to be a commune and is not although it is always referred to as such. We don’t care. We are also approximately 70 miles southwest of Pueblo, CO. Any way you cut it “what a place to live.” Peace, Betsy

By: admin

admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:33:00 +0000

Thanks for the comment and question, Kerry.
The letter is located in the Smithsonian Archives for American Art, in a special collection for the Park Place group.
You can click here to see the letter.

By: Kerry

Kerry — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:37:19 +0000

Great resource here! Would you mind sharing where you found that letter from Fleming to Paula Cooper? Thanks!

By: Jonathan Stephenson

Jonathan Stephenson — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:37:34 +0000

I was interested to see this site.
The Dean Fleming painting that you reproduce - UNTITLED, 1965 - is hanging right by me here in my gallery in London.
I saw it three years ago in Chicago and had to buy it. I have other pieces from park Place Group artists including Leo Valledor and Edwin Ruda. Great work from an exciting period in NY art history.
Jonathan Stephenson / Rocket Gallery, London

By: Bill Mc

Bill Mc — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:35:14 +0000

It’s too bad the rich beauty of Libre and the Huerfano scene is so poorly captured so far - as one who lived there for a time
it is typical to see the shallow passes taken by those drawn to the glow of what was there and I bet still is —

If you we not there for some of those breath taking happenings, on all levels, you can’t presume the attempt to write it. There is so much to be written and so much many who were there don’t feel it would be wise to have in writing. And there in lies the art.

McIntyre

By: Craig Ede

Craig Ede — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:22:59 +0000

It’d be nice to see a piece from all that stuff he’s been working on.