Caracalla Chiaroscuro, 2004
W
hen New York painter Adam Van Doren was
six years old, he had his first lesson in making art. The
instructor who taught him the intricacies of drawing
cartoons was a schoolmate named David Kissinger, son
of a Harvard faculty member who later became secretary
of state under two presidents.
A romp on the periphery of academe, if not actually
dwelling in its cerebral grove, has in fact always been
a pertinent element in Van Doren's life. He earned both
a B.A. and an M.A. in architecture from Columbia, the
family school, so to speak: his father John and uncle
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