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Historic 1884 Government Hill renovated into modern offices, was home to ex-Confederate soldier San Antonio magnate Col. C.C. Gibbs
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The second floor office, leased by the advertising and public relations agency TradeCraft, also combines vintage details from the original house along with modern amenities needed to run a 21st century business.William Luther /Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Logan and Lisette Fullmer’s historic home-turned-office is located in the Government Hill neighborhood. The Fullmers run their business, Asset Resolution Partners, from the first floor of the building and rent the second floor to another business.William Luther /Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Had you been in the Gibbs Building at King’s College, Cambridge, one summer’s day in 1969, you might have come across a pair of English artists taking tea. The older was the Bloomsbury painter Duncan Grant, then 84. The younger, halfway through his tenure as the university’s first artist-in-residence, was Mark Lancaster, who has died aged 82.
It was, variously, an unexpected pairing. Lancaster, at the time, was painting works such as Cambridge Green, now in the Tate collection – resolutely modernist, grid-based acrylics, seemingly derived from American minimalism. The resemblance was not coincidental.
Five years earlier, while still a student at Newcastle University, Lancaster had gone to New York. While there, he had taken up an introduction from his teacher, the pop artist Richard Hamilton, to meet Andy Warhol. Warhol, captivated, offered the young Englishman both casual work at the Factory and an introduction to Henry Geldzahle