Artist Draws Bea Arthur Every Day

The artist Mike Denison is 308 Bea Arthurs down, with 57 to go. A fan of “The Golden Girls” and Arthur in particular, Denison is drawing the actress, one sketch a day for an entire year. “Bea a Day,” as he calls it, is the kind of strange-sounding thing Rose might announce at the kitchen table, as part of her interminable St. Olaf stories, leading Dorothy to gnaw at her wrist, or scream, begging for mercy, “Rose!” Denison doesn’t expect any of his sketches to compete the work of John Currin, who recently sold a painting of a nude Arthur for $1.9 million.

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