Harvey Schmidt: "I don't feel for myself a division between 'fine art' and other art."

In 1958, Look magazine published a portfolio of Harvey Schmidt's painting of Mexico City, done while Schmidt was there on summer vacation in 1957. Schmidt said, "I don't feel for myself a division between 'fine art' and other art. I think of myself as a reporter rather than a painter... art for me is simply contact with people, evoking a response from people. The things I like most myself nearly always seem to communicate most successfully to others. I never try to make people understand. I just do the best I can."















One more from the May 1959 issue of American Artist magazine...



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