The Masterpiece is a Masterpiece

Greetings To All:

Today, I want to share my reading experience with the mystery book entitled: The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis. The book is set a story about the Grand Central Station Art School which was in Grand Central Station New York. 

The basic placing is – The Grand Central School of Art was an American art school in New York City,^[1] founded in 1922 by the painters Edmund Greacen, Walter Leighton Clark and John Singer Sargent. It closed in 1944. Many a notable attended the school. The school occupied 7,000 sq ft on the 7th floor in the East wing of the station. Approx 900 students attended in its lifetime with notable teachers Arshile Gorky a celebrated Abstract Expressionist along with such persons as Jackson Pollock and Willhem de Kooning.

Willhem de Kooning was a shtetl born painter. A brief history of de Kooning – born in Rotterdam in 1904. At 16 he left school to a job where he was an apprentice in a commercial artist firm. He was active until his last work in 1991. Just to let you know who-was-who at this school. It sets an interesting mode for the story.

Davis has a charm of setting her events from time to another time for a tie-in. So, we start with Clara Darden a struggling artist in 1928 to Virginia Clay (1974) seeking the truth about the disappearance of Clara and her work.  Plus – an additional issue of the Grand Central in the middle of a lawsuit to remove this historic site. Well, this really makes for a quick read to get to the finalization of all the pertinent issues which have made the story. It is intriguing.

I leave you with – maybe – a desire to read this piece.

More to come…….Patti