“For me, the fearless originality in Theo’s work is partly the result of mixing his strong personality with a sprinkling of appreciation for the work of fellow painters: Diebenkorn, Ellsworth Kelly, Wayne Thiebaud, Wolfe Kahn, Hopper, Joan Mitchell, Jim Dine, Guston, Robert Indiana. Even poets from Billy Collins to the poet of painters Frank O’Hara — who described his own cutting-edge work as ‘I am out on a limb and it is the arm of God.’”
Harry A. Rich
