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he was admitted to the National Academy of Design in New York City

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California) is a master of virtuosic simplicity

Untitled (Community Holiday Festival) Empire he was admitted to theJoe Zucker (b. 1941, Chicago, IL) created this image to commemorate the 9th Annual Community Holiday Festival at Lincoln Center in 1979. "High key, even gaudy, color has been a consistent characteristic of Joe Zucker's work. The bright color, together with the prosaic subject matter, evokes an amusement park sensibility a world of cotton candy, colored popcorn. Without denying the joyous, humorous, or even the kitsch quality of his work, Zucker