“Bright, splashy canvases by Quinn reveal his taste for earthy colors and bold forms, and elegant abstract sculptures in stone and wood speak volumes about his tactile sense and love of pure shape.”
Laura Stewart, Fine Arts Writer, News-Journal
“Examining Quinn’s many expressions of creativity together—his art, collecting, and acting—we can see that he was a creative genius, by which I mean that the works that he made and surrounded himself with are of an imaginative piece, not simply passing fancies…”
Donald Kuspit, Art Critic and Professor of Art and Philosophy, Ph.D.,
Stony Brook University
“Rarely have we had an exhibition that has generated so much interest and positive comments from museum visitors. The many responses have included that Anthony Quinn was perhaps as fine a visual artist as he was a performing artist.”
Mary Bryan Hood, Director, Owensboro Museum of Fine Art
“He didn’t get a chance to finish high school… yet, looking at his work suggests that he was indeed learning constantly, hungrily, and taking it all in.”
Inna Hardison, Editor, Palm Coast Lifestyles
“It's only a sampling of what Quinn lived with, but it paints a vivid picture of a comfortable, lavish, very masculine environment, richly attuned to a world of visual arts.”
Laura Stewart, Fine Arts Writer, News-Journal
“Anthony Quinn left behind an enormous legacy: more than 3,000 pieces of art (his own and the works of others,) collectibles and antiquities, a library of more than 10,000 books, and thousands of archival objects documenting his life and career. ”
American Style Magazine
“Art was an important part of his life, his soul. His brilliant expressionist canvases confront such political events as the Mexican Revolution, while smaller fauvist works are unabashedly joyful. The exuberance so characteristic of Quinn's role in Zorba the Greek carried over in his artistic embrace of other cultures.”
Nancy Whipple Grinnell, Curator, Newport Art Museum
“Even in such a small sampling, what comes through is Quinn's preference for thoughtful, richly textured and intensely chromatic works.”
Laura Stewart, Fine Arts Writer, News-Journal
“Throughout his life his passion for creating and collecting art did not wane. Through all the successes on stage and film, he remained an artist at his core, and this exhibition is a testament to his many talents, and his insatiable curiosity about people and places.”
Inna Hardison, Editor, Palm Coast Lifestyles
“It would appear that the spirit of this towering Hollywood presence is still very much alive.”
Loft Magazine
“There was little that Anthony Quinn did in his life that could be thought of as minor. ...So it comes as no surprise that the themes he pursued in a lifetime of collecting and making art were equally large, equally ambitious.”
Newport Daily News
“In the end, however, it is quieter works that give a sense of Quinn as a person. His own face appears in the exhibit several times, but nowhere more insightfully than in three portraits. But the most penetrating, and prescient, is the tiny likeness Quinn made in 1932, when he was 17.”
Laura Stewart, Fine Arts Writer, News-Journal
