"One Small Grain of Sand, Unstained"
- The Life and Art of Rex Ashlock by Peter Hastings Falk


For art historians, nothing is more intriguing and challenging than discovering a body of artwork and suddenly realizing that it represents an important but missing glimpse into the history of American art. Yet these opportunities are uncommon. After all, generations of art historians, curators and dealers have already separated most of the brilliant wheat from the derivative chaff. This is why excitement
surrounds the discovery of a previously unacknowledged artist highly deserving of critical recognition.

Rex Ashlock is one of these. A Chinese calligrapher once gave him his Chinese name, "I chen bunán," - "One small gr...