FAMILY PORTRAIT
Whitehead, Eliot
In 1974, this renowned artist's artist, packed and sealed with rope and wax, a dynamite crate of Atlas Powder's. The top carved: "All Fool's Day 1974 closed Open 2000"
Was it his intent the crate not be opened until his death? Perhaps. It remained unopened for forty years, contents unknown. Wrapped in fishing nets, protected by hooks and anchors was artistic gold - his sketchbooks from 1956-1974. Widely known, controversial, iconoclastic and o...