In a lecture in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery auditorium a few years ago, noted architect Daniel Libeskind summed up perfectly Buffalo's treasures: "This is a city that is truly a mecca, and it's an unknown mecca .
Bell's work may be seen -- and this is a short list -- at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; the Art Institute of Chicago; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; the Dallas Museum of Art; the Denver Art Museum; the Detroit Institute of Arts; the Solomon R.
Thus in the first room of this elegant installation are such unusual works as 'Figure with Monkey' and 'Elephant Fording a River', both from private collections, animal paintings with a difference which reinforce better-known images such as 'Man with Dog', borrowed from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
He is almost squeezed out of the shallow space of the canvas by two of his own works of the period, The Yellow Christ, now in the collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, and an oversized ceramic pot/grotesque head.
