Between two continents
From our UK edition
Who was Conrad Marca-Relli? Figureheads of the so-called New York School such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko have long since become art world icons — with attention-grabbing auction prices, fat biographies and plays or films about them to match. By comparison, few people in this country are likely to have heard of Marca-Relli. Tate Modern owns not a single work by him, nor has he ever had a solo exhibition in Britain. Yet Marca-Relli made a unique contribution to art at mid-century and was often at the heart of its action. He deserves a better fate. Born to a family of Italian immigrants in Boston in 1913, Corrado di Marcarelli (he changed his name in the 1950s) moved to New York in 1926.
