Michael Gerver

I didn't know Diane, and I didn't go to the Beatles concert. But I do remember, right after the Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan, arguing with Tapio Mattson '64 (who also rode on the Summit Hill school bus) about how big the Beatles would eventually be. Tapio said that they would end up being bigger than Elvis ever was. I said no, that's impossible!

Ellen, from what I remember you and Cornie were pretty close even in 10th grade, when you were both in Mrs. Dean's art class, and always seemed to be giggling together. In fact, I'm pretty sure that you and she were both involved in the mustache-painting incident that I mentioned in the message I posted above, a few months ago. Do you remember that, by any chance?

And here is her drawing published in the B-CC literary magazine CHIPS, our senior year, for those of you who don't have a copy, or can't easily put your hands on it. The attention to detail, maybe one could say obsession with detail, is something in common with "Zwanbien," the painting I linked to from 1984.

Here's a link to an image of one of her painted fabric works that she created in the last year of her life.

http://americanartluce.tumblr.com/post/91948948966/cornelia-breitenbach-zwanbien-1984-paint-on

This seems like a good example of her style as it is described (and as she described it) in the fourth paragraph of the obituary I linked to above.