Press: Outdoor Artist Interview - Elissa Gore
BIOGRAPHY
ELISSA GORE
Originally from Philadelphia, Elissa Gore now lives in New York City. She studied at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Art. Her work is often shown nationally and is included in over 60 public collections. She has had 18 solo exhibitions. She taught college fine art for 20 years and currently teaches landscape painting at the New York Botanical Garden.
THE ARTIST'S STATEMENT:
Forty years ago I decided I wanted to make art about nature. First, I made sculptures and drawings of human anatomy and plants. But soon I discovered the feeling I wanted to express in art was communicated best in paintings of the landscape. I try to surround the viewer with atmosphere or a panoramic view, that reflects a transcendent moment I feel. I respond especially to places that include air, earth and water.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
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2013 |
Drawn from Nature, Carlisle Arts Learning Center, Carllisle, PA |
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2011 |
Evensong, Stone Soup Gallery, Key West, FL |
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2010 |
Virginia Pastoral, Rivermont Gallery, Lynchburg, VA |
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Near the Water’s Edge, Noel Fine Art, Bronxville. NY |
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2009 |
Interior Light of Landscape, Viviana Hansen Gallery, Franklin, NY |
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2006 |
Elissa Gore, Howard Gallery, New Hope PA |
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Elissa Gore, Old Bank Gallery, Roxbury, NY |
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Elissa Gore, Windham Fine Arts, Windham NY |
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2005 |
Elissa Gore, Landscapes, Allen Sheppard Gallery, New York, NY |
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2004 |
Noel Fine Art, Bronxville, NY |
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2003 |
Center Gallery, Glen Arbor, MI |
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Noel Fine Art, Bronxville, NY |
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2002 |
Water Signs, Markel Fine Arts, New York NY |
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2000 |
Markel Fine Arts, New York NY |
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1999 |
Allen Sheppard Gallery, Piermont, NY |
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The Adirondack Lakes Art Center, Blue Mtn Lake, NY |
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Catskills, The Smithy-Pioneer Gallery, Cooperstown,NY |
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Erpf Gallery, Catskill Center, Arkville. NY |
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1998 |
Language of Long Views, Allen Sheppard Gallery, Piermont, NY |
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Elissa Gore, Mural Gallery, Stamford, NY |
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The Art Center, Old Forge, NY |
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1997 |
Wave Hill, Bronx, NY |
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1995 |
New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY |
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1993 |
Hardcastles Gallery at Toscana, Wilmington, DE |
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1992 |
Studio 225, New York, NY |
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1982 |
Maples Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson, Teaneck, NJ |
TWO AND THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
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2013 |
The Re-envisioned Landscape: Elissa Gore, Jodi Primoff, Joanna Murphy, Smithy-Pioneer Gallery, Cooperstown, NY |
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2008 |
Elissa Gore, Robert Schneider, Smithy-Pioneer Gallery, Cooperstown, NY |
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2004 |
Elissa Gore, Tamar Zinn Windham Fine Arts, Windham NY |
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2002 |
Elissa Gore and Chistine Debrosky, Windham Fine Arts, Windham NY |
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2002 |
Elissa Gore, Ralph McRae, Allen Sheppard Gallery, NYC |
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2000 |
Noel Gallery, Bronxville, NY |
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1989 |
New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
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2013 |
Surf and Turf, Madelyn Jordan Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY |
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The Stagecoach Run, Artists Studio Tour, Treadwell, NY |
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Art on Site, five artists paint northern Manhattan, No MAA Gallery, NYC, NY |
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Art in Embassies Program, Taipei, Taiwan |
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Snow Hill Plein Air, Snow Hill, MD |
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Chestertown Plein Air, Chestertown, MD |
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Camp Hill Plein Air, Camp Hill, PA |
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Mountain Maryland Plein Air, Cumberland, MD |
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Paint the Town, Cranford, NJ |
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2012 |
Northern Manhattan as Muse, NoMAA Gallery, New York, NY |
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Barns and Bridges, Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY |
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Vermont Plein Air , Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington VT |
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Billsboro Plein Air , Quick Draw Award, Geneva, NY |
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Brandywine Plein Air , Tatnall School, Wilmington, DE |
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Olney Plein Air, Sandy Spring Museum, Sandy Spring, MD |
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Olana Plein Air Benefit, Columbia County Arts Council, Hudson, NY |
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Paint the Town, Cranford, NJ |
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2011 |
Art in Embassies Program, American Embassy, Podgorica, Montenegro |
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From the Mountaintop, Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY, Smithy-Pioneer Gallery, Cooperstown, NY |
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Plein Air Exhibit, North Bennington, VT, Paint Annapolis, Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, Annapolis, MD |
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2010 |
In-Struct, The Studios of Key West |
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Daughters of Venus and From the Mountaintop, Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY |
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Women in the Heights, Contemporary Women Artists of Northern Manhattan, NoMAA, NYC, NY |
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Inaugural Show, Swenson Fine Arts, Laguna Beach, CA |
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Smithy-Pioneer Gallery, Cooperstown NY |
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2009 |
Art of Seeing, Allen Sheppard Gallery, NYC, NY |
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Inaugural Exhibit, Franklin Fine Arts, Franklin, NY |
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A River Runs Through It, Ullr’s Reverie, Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY |
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The Summer Show, Noel Fine Art, Bronxville, NY |
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Treasure Hunt, Madelyn Jordan Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY |
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Uptown Art, Berkshire Bank, New York, NY |
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2008 |
Holiday Show, Delhi Art and Antiques, Delhi, NY |
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Holiday Show, Noel Fine Art, Bronxville, NY |
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Closer Look 2, Red Eft Gallery, Wurtsboro, NY |
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Art of Seeing, Allen Sheppard Gallery, NYC, NY |
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First Look 1, Red Eft Gallery, Wurtsboro, NY |
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2007 |
Inaugural Exhibition, Red Eft Gallery, Wurtsboro, NY |
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Paint the Mountaintop, Windham Fine Arts, Windham NY |
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The Upstate Landscape, Smithy-Pioneer Gallery, Cooperstown, NY |
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2006 |
Peer Pressure, Allen Sheppard Gallery, New York NY |
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Paint the Mountaintop, Windham Fine Arts, Windham NY |
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The Upstate Landscape, Smithy-Pioneer Gallery, Cooperstown, NY |
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2005 |
Emerged, Markel Fine Arts, New York NY |
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Paint the Mountaintop, Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY |
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The Upstate Landscape, Smithy-Pioneer Gallery, Cooperstown, NY |
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2004 |
A Celebration of Snow, Windham Fine Arts, Windham NY |
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Works on Paper, Carol Craven Gallery, West Tisbury, MA |
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2003 |
The Upstate Landscape, Smithy-Pioneer Gallery, Cooperstown, NY |
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2002 |
Through Women’s Eyes: Pastel Landscapes, Memorial Gallery, SUNY Farmingdale, Farmingdale, NY |
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2001 |
The Upstate Landscape, Smithy-Pioneer Gallery, Cooperstown, NY |
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1999 |
The Elusive Landscape,Noel Gallery, Bronxville, NY;Platte Clove Artists Landscapes, Erpf Gallery, Arkville. NY |
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Landscape of the Lower Hudson, Allen Sheppard Gallery, NY, NY |
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1998 |
Firma, Claudia Carr Gallery, New York, NY |
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Terre; Group Landscape Show, Noel Fine Art Gallery, |
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1997 |
Oil Landscapes, The Smithy Pioneer Gallery, Cooperstown, NY |
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Land and Sea, The Schoolhouse Gallery, Croton Falls, NY |
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1996 |
Envisioned in a Pastoral Setting, Shelburne Farms, VT |
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4 Artists, 3 Media, 2 points of view, 1 subject matter, Kubiak Gallery, Oneonta, NY |
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Summer Pleasures, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY |
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Jewels of the Garden, Bartlett Arboretum, Stamford, CT |
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1994 |
Faculty Exhibition, New York Botanical Garden, NY |
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New Space, New Works, New Artists, Somerville, NJ |
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Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE |
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1992 |
On the Road, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY |
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Five from Penn, Twenty Years Later, Cooperstown Art Association, NY |
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1990 |
Faculty Exhibition, Pace University Gallery, Choate House, Pleasantville, NY |
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:
AIG
American General
American Express, New York, NY
Ameritrust, Dallas, TX
AmSouth, FL
Arnot Ogden Medical Center, Elmira, NY
Beth Israel Hospital, New York, NY
Cingular Wireless, Washington, DC
Citigroup, New York, NY
Core States Bank of Delaware, Wilmington, DE
Core States of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Crowne Plaza, New York, NY
Deloitte& Touche, New York, NY
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, NY
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Galderma, Inc., New York, NY
General Dynamics
General Electric, New York, NY
GTE, Houston, TX
Hallmark, Kansas City, MO
Health Corp. of Virginia, Richmond, VA
ICI Industries, West Deptford, NJ
Kidder Peabody, New York, NY
Klingenstein Fields, New York, NY
Lenox China, NJ
Lincoln Financial Group, Philadelphia, PA
Loudoun HealthCare, VA
Manchester Partners, Bala Cynwyd, PA
Marsh McLennan, New York, NY
McKinsey and Co., New York, NY
JPMorgan Bank, New York, NY
Nomura Capital Corporation of America
Pfizer Corporation, New York, NY
Price Waterhouse Inc., New York, NY
Robert Wood Johnson Hospital, Hamilton, NJ
Ronco, New York, NY
St. Paul Companies, St. Paul, MN
Scudder Investor Services, New York, NY
Silverstein and Mullens PLLC, Washington, DC
Sloane Kettering Cancer Center, NJ
TIAA/CREF, New York, NY
United Health Care, CT
University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
USAA , San Antonio, TX
U. S. Department of State, Washington, DC
Vanguard Group, Valley Forge, PA
West Allis Memorial Hospital, Milwaukee, WI
Womble Carlyle Sandridge and Rice, Washington, DC
Woodcall Washburn, New York, NY; AstraZeneca Corp., Washington, DC
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS:
Art in Embassies Program: Taipei, Taiwan 2013: Podgorska, Montenegro, 2012
Second Place, Mountain Maryland Plein Air, 2013
Artist in Residence, The Studios at Key West 2009, 2010
Artist in Residence, Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA 2010, 1998, 1996
Artist in Residence, I-Park, East Haddam, CT 2008
Artist in Residence, Jentel Foundation, Banner, WY 2005
Artist in Residence, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA 2005, 2001, 1999, 1997, 1996
Artist in Residence, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY 2009, 2002-2007
Cooperstown Art Association, Award of Merit,1998, 1996, 1995, 1992, 1991
Art Colony at the Gettysburg Festival, 2012, 2011
Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors, Award of Merit, 1995
Glen Arbor Art Association Artist in Residence, Glen Arbor, MI 2003, 2002
Platte Clove Artist in Residence, The Catskill Center, Arkville, NY 1999
Cummington Community of the Arts, Cummington, MA 1993, 1992, 1991
Baltimore Watercolor Society, Bronze Medal, 1990
Watercolor Society of Alabama, Award of Merit, 1991
Chautauqua International Art Exhibition, Award for Watercolor, 1991
Mamaroneck Artists Guild, First Prize, Watercolor, 1991
New Rochelle Art Association, First Prize, Watercolor, 1991
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Award for Landscape in Oil, 1990
Wichita Art Association, Hal Ross Award, 1990
Pittsburgh Watercolor Society, Jarvis Cecil Award, 1982
JURIED EXHIBITIONS:
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Watercolor U.S.A., Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO 1996, 1992 |
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Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors, The Art Center, Old Forge, NY 1997, 1996, 1995, 1992, 1989 |
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Cooperstown Art Association Annual National Art Exhibition, Cooperstown, NY 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1992, 1991, 1990 |
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Philadelphia Watercolor Club, The Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA 1995, 1992, The American College, Bryn Mawr, 1993, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ 1991 |
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Hudson River Contemporary Artists, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY 1992, 1991 |
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Baltimore Watercolor Society, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 1992, 1990 |
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Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition, Foothills Art Ctr,Golden, CO 1995 |
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Chautauqua National Exhibition, Chautauqua, NY 1994, 1991, 1982 |
EDUCATION:
University of Pennsylvania, BA 1973, Graduate School of Fine Arts, BFA1974
University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, MA 1978
TEACHING:
New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY 1984-present
Lehman College, Bronx, NY 2006-2007
Pace University, Pleasantville, NY 1990-1997
Parsons School of Design, 1983-1989
Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1981-1983
JUROR:
Annual Exhibit of the Central New York Watercolor Society Cooperstown, NY, October, 1999
Platte Clove Artists in Residence, Arkville, NY, October 2000
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Earth and Sky, Michael Chesley Johnson, Pastel Journal Magazine, August 2009
Artist Plays with Light , Camille Howell,Springfield News-Leader, July 28, 2006
New Paintings by Elissa Gore at Noel Fine Arts, Art & Antiques Weekly, Feb. 7, 2003
Noel Fine Art ’Landscapes, a Distant View,’ Art & Antiques Weekly, Sept.15,2000
Two Shows: Frescoes and Landscapes, Vivien Raynor, New York Times, July 5, 1998
Adirondack Colors, Syracuse Herald American, Sept. 7, 1997
A Gardener’s Pallette, Ganette Westchester Newspapers, May 5, 1989
Westchester/This Week, New York Times, Sunday Feb. 28, 1982