ROME — A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck central Italy early Wednesday, with reports of collapsed buildings in the mountainous town of Amatrice and tremors as far away as Rome. Italy’s civil protection agency upgraded the provisional death toll to 73. The earthquake hit about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) southeast of Norcia at 3:36 a.m., according to the United States Geological Survey. Michael Gilroy, who was on the second story of a three-floor building in Montepulciano, said he felt the tremors. “It felt like the bed was on rollers,” he said. “It was initially very confusing. I’m from California and had a sense of what it may be. And we ran out to the main area and the chandelier was swaying back and forth. At that point, we knew we had to get out of the building as fast as we can.” Gilroy, his girlfriend and other guests of the hotel are standing outside in a clear area. “We’re going to wait outside, wait for daylight and see what happens from there.”

About an hour after the earthquake, a 5.5-magnitude aftershock hit just 4 kilometers northeast of Norcia.capiz shell chandelier laura ashley Although the extent of damage and injuries was not immediately clear, the earthquake could be devastating. chandelier exit indicator mt4Several buildings collapsed in the mountain town of Amatrice, according to CNN affiliate RAI.chandelier taskers "This was an earthquake ... that is considered a very shallow earthquake," said Jessica Turner of the USGS. "At that shallowness and magnitude of 6.2, we're going to expect lots of aftershocks for next several hours and maybe the next several days." Landslides are likely, because the earthquake struck in a mountainous area, she said.

The USGS estimated that significant casualties are likely and that economic loss could be extensive. "Overall, the population in this region resides in structures that are a mix of vulnerable and earthquake resistant construction," according to USGS' initial estimate on economic loss. It cited that building types tend to be un-reinforced brick with mud and concrete frame with infill construction. "Based on the estimate we have, we could be looking at very significant losses," Rafael Abreu, a USGS geophysicist told CNN. "We can see several casualties related to this event." Buildings were damaged in Ascoli Piceno, a town east of Norcia., according to Italian news agency ANSA. Many calls to firefighters have been made following the earthquake. Deadly earthquakes have struck Italy in recent years. In May 2012, a pair of earthquakes in northern Italy killed dozens of people. In April 2009, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 hit central Italy, killing 295.

The earthquake Wednesday hit in an area close to the 2009 earthquake.We've got more to seeEmerson Woelffer, Postwar Renaissance Man A self-described “abstract surrealist,” the painter, collagist, and teacher Emerson Woelffer (1914–2003) was in many ways the very ideal of a postwar American artist. His distinctive style of Abstract Expressionism was inflected by his many and varied interests and experiences. He was a student at the Art Institute of Chicago before becoming employed in the WPA artist’s program and then as a teacher at László Moholy-Nagy’s Institute of Design in Chicago. Woelffer also lived and worked for a period in Mexico and in Italy; and collected ethnographic art as well as cars. A close friend of Robert Motherwell and Buckminster Fuller, he was invited to teach at the storied Black Mountain College in North Carolina in 1949. Woelffer came to Los Angeles a decade later and, upon taking a position as an instructor at the Chouinard Art Institute, became mentor to an impressive roster of devoted students that included Larry Bell, Ed Ruscha, Joe Goode, and Charles Arnoldi.

Lot 275, Emerson Woelffer, Cook and Fish (1943) May 22, 2016 Modern Art & Design Auction Emerson Woelffer’s work is both erudite and intuitive; his personal style cosmopolitan, cool, and casual. He was inspired by the Surrealists’ notion of “automatism”—painting unconsciously and without intention—and by free-form jazz improvisation. Marked by runes and ciphers—X’s, O’s, and seeming proto-numbers and -letters many of his canvases suggest primitive pictographs. His work was shaped, too, by the environments which surrounded him, and his move to Southern California prompted a discernable shift to bolder, brighter colors in his paintings. Lot 276, Emerson Woelffer, Untitled (c. 1950) Certainly one of Woelffer’s most enduring legacies is the inspiration he gave his students. Not long after Woelffer’s death, Ed Ruscha curated a survey of his work at the California Institute of the Arts’s REDCAT Gallery. Woelffer taught that “art was simply a thing to be practiced rather than studied.

Paint a picture rather than study about the painting of a picture,” Ruscha wrote for the catalogue to that exhibit. “He could get you to dive into the pool without ever using the word dive or the word pool or the words into the.” Lot 277, Emerson Woelffer, Forio #5 (1957) Lot 280, Emerson Woelffer, Forio d’Ischia (1958) Ruscha, Ed, and Gerald Nordland. Emerson Woelffer: A Solo Flight. Valencia, CA: REDCAT, California Institute of the Arts, 2003. Emerson Woelffer: Selections from a Career. signed, dated, and retains Chicago and Vicinity 47th Annual exhibition label verso Canvas (vis.): 29.5″ x 39.5″ Frame: 39.125″ x 49.25″ Exhibited: “Chicago and Vicinity 47th Annual,” the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, March 11-April 25, 1943 Retains Manny Silverman Gallery label verso Board: 26.75″ x 19″ Frame: 29.75″ x 21.75″ Oil and enamel on canvassigned, titled, and dated verso; inscribed “Forio d’Ischia/ITALIA” verso;

retains Manny Silverman Gallery, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, and Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery labels verso Together with two exhibition catalogues (one signed) and copy of invoice from Hackett-Freedman Gallery Canvas: 27.375″ x 19.875″ Frame: 29.5″ x 22″ Provenance: Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, California; Private Collection, Los Angeles, California (acquired directly from the above, March 2006) Exhibited: “Emerson Woelffer: A Survey Exhibition-The Years 1947-1974,” Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, April 27-June 2, 1974 Illustrated: Emerson Woelffer: A Survey Exhibition-The Years 1947-1974. Newport Harbor Art Museum exh. Emerson Woelffer: A Solo Flight. Oil and mixed media on paper Each signed and dated in graphite lower left; each titled lower right Madrid: Sheet: 26.75″ x 20.375″ Frame: 33.25″ x 26.75″ Forio: Sheet: 25.75″ x 18.875″ Frame: 33.25″ x 26.25″ Forio d’Ischia Napoli Italia: Italian Facade