Everything
that could be said today is being said today, and I won’t add words, or many of them.
In
May, we were in the bookshop of the Contemporary Art Museum in Chicago, and I
found Robert Storr’s September:
A History Painting by Gerhard Richter. I don’t agree with everything
Storr, the dean of the School of Art at Yale University, has to say about 9/11 in
the book -- too much of the East Coast liberal in him, and too much of the Midwest conservative in me. But I was taken with Richter’s painting. I had had a post over at High
Calling Focus earlier this year about a Richter work at the St. Louis Art
Museum, but I wasn’t aware of this work.
It’s
small, approximately 20 by 30 inches. And while it doesn’t have the clarity of
so many photographs, and the tragedy, horror and pain reflected on so many
human faces that day, for me it represents much about what happened that day,
what happened to all of us.
Painting: September by Gerhard Richter
(2005), The Museum of Modern Art, New York
