"The Gilman Paper Company launched its collection of Contemporary Art in 1975, and with very few exceptions, completed it by 1977... With the benefit of hindsight, it is now evident that the works assembled by the Gilman Paper Company, and often designated under the once radical terminology of Minimalism, Conceptualism, Process and Land Art, are part of the mainstream tradition of modernism... This art speaks eloquently of the values it has projected onto our recent past, a past which under our very eyes quickly reorganizes itself into history."
Pierre Apraxine
Curator, Gilman Paper Company Collection
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