This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| A 2003 graduate in art of the University of Virginia, Erin Crowe became
fascinated with the "inscrutable visage and towering reputation" of
Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve Board Chairman, who resigned in
2006 and whom the artist has not met. However, her father, an
investment banker, is a fan of Greenspan.
Crowe, who minored in politics, did a number of portraits, some of them
caricatures, of Greenspan and displayed them in a friend's gallery in
Sag Harbor, Long Island, which the artist describes as a "playground
for so many Wall Street guys."
The paintings, with varying expressions, attracted much attention and
sales of every work, especially to Wall Street professionals
vacationing in the area. The original incentive for the work was
Crowe's participation in an arts festival in Charlottesville where the
theme was the dollar sign. She began watching videos of
Greenspan, and entered five paintings of him, which became popular and
which people posed in front of for photographs.
Source:
washingtonpost.com, 8/10/2005
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