{"id":58705,"date":"2025-01-30T23:08:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T23:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/art\/gone-gone-gone-reagan-upshaw-fine-art\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T23:08:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T23:08:17","slug":"gone-gone-gone-reagan-upshaw-fine-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=58705","title":{"rendered":"Gone, Gone, Gone – Reagan Upshaw Fine Art"},"content":{"rendered":"


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I stayed in touch with the Churgins after they retired to California.\u00a0 Wally died in 2005, but I heard from Shirley now and again, and Roberta and I visited her when we were in California a few years back.\u00a0 The paintings were as lovely as I had remembered.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the Churgin home was in Pacific Palisades.\u00a0 When I saw the news this month of the devastating wildfire there, I tried to contact Shirley by phone, text, and email without success.\u00a0 I was finally able to reach her daughter, who told me that Shirley had managed to evacuate but that the house and all its contents were gone.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can\u2019t imagine what it must be like to be in your 90s and to lose all the things you have assembled over a lifetime.\u00a0 Many of them have sentimental value only to you and your family \u2013 photographs, tchotchkes acquired on vacation, potholders made by great-grandchildren, and the like.\u00a0 The destruction of works of art, however, is a financial loss as well as a sentimental one.\u00a0 (I am currently working with the family on a loss appraisal for their insurance company.)<\/span><\/p>\n

In a larger sense, though, the loss of those artworks is something greater, something that extends to us all.\u00a0 Now there are five fewer Dufner paintings in the world.\u00a0 A small bit of the beauty around us has been lost.<\/span><\/p>\n

Musing about all the terrible losses from the Southern California fires, I thought of William Butler Yeats\u2019s poem \u201cLapis Lazuli,\u201d in which the poet speaks of the transitory nature of works of art.\u00a0 We know of the ancient Greek sculptor Callimachus only through accounts of his work by his astonished contemporaries, Yeats says; no handiwork of his remains.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the world goes on.\u00a0 And the artistic impulse to give visual delight goes on.\u00a0 As Yeats says in his poem:<\/span><\/p>\n

All things fall and are built again<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

And those that build them again are gay.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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