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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|May 11, 1993
|Filing date
|Jun 3, 1992
|Priority date
|Jun 26, 1989
|Fee status
|Publication number
|Roger S. Osborne
|Original Assignee
|Cooper Industries, Inc.
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (6), Referenced by (24), Classifications (6), Legal Events (4)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This is a continuation of copending application Ser. No. 07/647,672 filed on Jan. 24, 1991 and now abandoned.
The present invention relates generally to wellhead equipment for use in completion of oil or gas wells, and more particularly to an expandable load ring carried by an annular weight support member for expansion into a recessed load support groove in a surrounding structural support member. The weight support member may be, for example, a casing hanger, and the surrounding structural support member may be, for example, a casing head.
In the modern-day completion of conventional oil or gas wells, it is not uncommon for the casing program to include several strings of intermediate casing between the oil string casing and the surface or conductor casing, as well as one or more tubing strings. Typically, the surface or conductor casing is first run and cemented in the well bore, and the lowermost or surface casing head mounted on its upper end. Drilling then continues and an additional casing head is installed. The casing is set in a hole drilled at the rig, and a blowout preventer, or BOP, is located over the casing and hole being drilled. Installation of each additional casing head requires the removal of the blowout preventer. Then, after all casings are in place, a similar procedure is followed for the tubing head and tubing strings. Usually, the casing strings are each suspended from hanger equipment supported in a separate casing head. Similarly, the tubing strings are usually supported in a separate tubing head.
Installing separate heads for each casing string after the surface casing is installed is time-consuming, expensive, and potentially very dangerous. Each time a new casing head is installed on top of the wellhead equipment already present, the blowout preventer equipment must be removed. Typically, the blowout preventer stack is lifted and suspended while rig operators, working under it, install the new head. Since the BOP stack can weigh fifty tons or more, an accident or equipment malfunction or failure while the stack is suspended, causing partial or complete collapse of the stack, can cause serious injury or death to operators, as well as costly damage to equipment and lost rig time. When the new head has been installed and the BOP stack lowered for reinstallation, or another size or type of BOP equipment is installed to accommodate larger casing hangers, that too can be a dangerous and costly operation, especially if an equipment malfunction or failure were to occur. Operators exhibiting less than complete care and attention have lost fingers or hands during the BOP stack reinstallation operation, even when all equipment operates normally and as expected. The hazards inherent in working with equipment of this size and weight are amplified by the non-ideal working conditions on the rig; equipment, rig structure, and personnel are frequently covered by oil, grease, mud, or the like.
In addition to exposing operators to the dangers of mishandled equipment and accidents, removal of the BOP stack to install a new head is inherently dangerous, since during that time the well, and consequently the rig and operators, are unprotected against potentially catastrophic blowouts.
At best, when all equipment operates normally and without any accidents or the like, installation of a new head with BOP stack removal and reinstallation can take anywhere from about four to about twelve hours. For highly expensive rig crews and equipment, this operation can thus amount to a prohibitive expense.
In order to avoid some of the dangers and expense of installing a separate casing head for each casing, sometimes casing heads are used which can accommodate more than one casing string. This is sometimes done by providing the head with two annular support shoulders, with the larger ID shoulder simply being stepped back from the smaller one. The first casing is hung from the lower end of the casing head, and the second casing slides through the first casing, but has a larger flange which rests in the casing head above the first casing hanger. A separate casing hanger rests on each shoulder, suspending casing therefrom. With conventional heads of this type having a plurality of stepped-back annular shoulders, however, it is very difficult, if not entirely impossible, to provide for more than two such annular support shoulders while remaining within API requirements for the minimum shoulder bearing areas for the flange sizes of the hangers to be supported thereon. For any casing head, the minimum ID permissible in the casing head bore will be determined by the OD of the largest casing suspended from the bottom of the head. Thus, the total bearing area available for stepped-back annular support shoulders in conventional heads will be limited by this minimum head ID. The minimum bearing area for each annular support shoulder is determined such that it will be capable of supporting not only the weight of the hanger and its suspended casing, but also any load applied to the hanger's cross-sectional area from internal wellhead pressures. As hanger flange sizes increase for smaller diameter casings suspended above the lowermost casing, the potential pressure load increases, without regard to whether the suspended casing weight for the smaller casings might be less than the larger. Therefore, the minimum bearing area required for support shoulders for smaller casings will still be substantial, in order to support expected string weights and pressure loads.
There simply is not enough available bearing area in conventional heads for three or more stepped-back annular shoulders while remaining within API requirements; if three or more such shoulders are provided, one or more of them will not have the minimum specified bearing area for hangers of that flange size. In addition, for conventional heads as just described, as larger flange sizes are provided for the hangers to suspend smaller casing strings, it becomes more difficult, if not impossible, to run such hangers through the often restricted bores of the blowout preventer equipment mounted above the head. Accordingly, even if three or more annular stepped-back support shoulders were to be provided in the head, the conventional hangers for the smaller casing strings probably could not be run through the BOP stack, thereby necessitating BOP stack removal and eliminating the advantages of suspending the third and smaller strings from the same head in the first place.
Another approach to providing a multi-string head which has met with some success in the oil and gas industry is exemplified by the so-called "speed head" and hanger apparatus described, for example, in U.S. Pat. No. 3,438,654, issued Apr. 15, 1969, to J. G. Jackson, Jr., et al. While head and hanger equipment of that type is capable of suspending a plurality of casing and tubing strings from a single head, such equipment is inordinately complex, difficult to manufacture and relatively difficult to install, and expensive. Yet another approach to a multi-string head which has met with some success is the split load shoulder, such as one offered by Gray Tool Company, for example. The split load shoulder is typically a hinged circular ring which is installed in the head in expanded condition, and is actuated by a crank handle mounted on the outside of the head. Rotation of the crank handle reduces the ID of the split load shoulder, providing the required bearing area. Although probably less complicated than the speed head and hanger, the split load shoulder and accompanying head is still a more complex, expensive, and difficult system to manufacture and install than that of the present invention. Yet another multi-string system which has been proposed is the new "Cam Forge" system offered by Cameron Iron Works, which, although not known to be prior art with respect to the present invention, is believed to include a support ring which is forced into a groove in the head in a separate operation by a special tool. Again, such a system is less advantageous than the present invention, which does not require any special tools or operations to run and set the hangers in the accompanying head.
The present invention overcomes the problems associated with the prior art systems and devices and other alternative design approaches described or referred to above by providing a head and hanger apparatus capable of accommodating three or more casing strings and which is simple, reliable, easy to manufacture, run, and install, and inexpensive. The apparatus of the present invention includes an expandable, C-shaped load ring mounted on a hanger and retained thereon by a retainer ring. A fracturable cupon disposed between the ends of the load ring, or a plurality of such cupons disposed between the load ring and the retainer ring and circumferentially spaced apart about their outer peripheries, maintains the load ring in a contracted position until actuated. A recessed, annular support groove in the wall of the head has a no-go shoulder below the lower edge of the recessed groove upon which the expandable load ring lands when the hanger is lowered into the head. The weight of the casing string suspended by the hanger is applied to the load ring and is sufficient to fracture the cupon or cupons. With the cupon or cupons fractured, the load ring is free to expand into the recessed groove above the no-go shoulder. The hanger body above the load ring is provided with a frustoconical camming surface which cams the load ring outwardly into the recessed groove as the hanger continues its downward movement in the head. When the load ring is fully cammed into the groove, an annular shoulder on ring, and downward movement of the hanger stops. The hanger and casing string attached thereto are thus suspended from the recessed groove, through the expanded load ring. The load ring and recessed groove have sufficient contact or bearing area to support the casing and hanger weight, and the loads applied by internal wellhead pressures. The complete expansion of the load ring is effected within its elastic limits, so that if it becomes necessary to remove the hanger from the head it can simply be lifted straight up, and the C-shaped load ring will collapse back into a non-actuated, contracted state. To facilitate such collapse, the upper outer edge of the load ring is chamfered, and the roof or upper wall surface of the recessed groove is correlatively frustoconical-shaped, so that when the load ring is lifted upwardly these two surfaces will engage one another and tend to cam the load ring into the collapsed state.
The head according to the present invention may be provided with three or more recessed grooves for supporting three or more casing strings, while at the same time assuring that API requirements for minimum bearing areas will be met. The recessed shoulders need only be stepped back from one another, moving from the lowermost groove upwardly in the head, a distance sufficient to provide the next or subsequent no-go shoulder upon which the next or subsequent load ring lands and which begins the actuation of that next load ring. The no-go shoulder needs only to be large enough to support the weight necessary to fracture the cupon or cupons; after that happens, the recessed groove as a whole becomes the support surface as the load ring is cammed into it. It is believed that a setback of only about one-eighth inch from one recessed groove to the next higher groove will provide the necessary no-go shoulder for that next higher groove.
Moreover, since the load rings of the present invention are run into the head in contracted positions, the hangers carrying such load rings may be run through relatively restricted bores in the blowout preventer equipment, avoiding the need for removing the BOP stack from time to time to suspend the multiple casing strings. That is, greater weight support equipment may be run through a given size BOP stack or other restricted bore.
These and other advantages of the present invention will be apparent from the following detailed description, taking into account the foregoing discussion, and read in conjunction with reference to the following drawings wherein:
FIG. 1 is a fragmentary cross-sectional view of a wellhead employing expandable load rings according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is an enlarged, fragmentary cross-sectional view of one of the annular weight support members of FIG. 1 structural support member, through an expandable load ring according to the present invention;
FIG. 3 is an isometric view, taken from below, of one of the expandable load rings shown in FIG. 1.
FIG. 4 is a fragmentary elevational view of a load ring and retainer ring prior to expansion of the load ring to support the casing hanger.
Referring to FIG. 1, there is shown in a fragmentary, cross-sectional configuration two annular weight support members 1, 2. Weight support members 1, 2 may be, for example, casing hangers to which are attached casing strings (not shown) which are to be suspended in an oil or gas well. Weight support members or hangers 1, 2 are shown suspended from annular, recessed load support grooves 3, 4 in the wall 5 of a surrounding structural support member 7. Structural support member 7 may be, for example, a casing head for such an oil or gas well. Although it should be understood that members 1, 2 and 7 may be any type of apparatus wherein members 1 and 2 are to be suspended inside member 7, the present invention has particular utility with respect to casing hangers in oil or gas well heads, and for the sake of convenience and clarity the invention will be described hereinafter with regard to that particular environment. Accordingly, such members 1, 2 and 7 will hereinafter be referred to as hangers 1, 2 and head 7. Hanger 1 is suspended from groove 3 through an expandable load ring 9 mounted on hanger 1. Likewise, hanger 2 is suspended from groove 4 through an expandable load ring 9' mounted on hanger 2. For ease of reference, only hanger 1 will be described in detail. The details of hangers 1, 2 are identical, except where otherwise described.
Referring now to FIGS. 1 and 2, hanger 1 comprises an annular, generally circular cylindrical, tubular metal member, e.g., of steel, having an upper body portion 11 and a lower, reduced OD portion 13. Between upper body portion 11 and lower reduced OD portion 13, hanger 1 includes an intermediate, load ring actuating portion 15 having a downwardly facing, downwardly and inwardly tapering frustoconical camming surface 17 around its exterior periphery. Between the upper end of camming surface 17 and the exterior cylindrical wall surface 19 of upper body portion 11, there is disposed around hanger 1 a downwardly facing annular shoulder 21. A threaded pin or box may be provided on the lower terminal end of portion 13 of hanger i for connection to the box or pin end, as the case may be, of the uppermost joint of casing 10 of the string suspended from hanger 1.
The upper exterior periphery of reduced OD portion 13 of hanger 1 below camming surface 17 is provided with threads 23 for receiving a correlatively internally threaded, as at 25, annular retainer ring 27. Annular retainer ring 27 is a substantially solid-bodied element of steel or other material compatible with conventional wellhead equipment. Ring 27 may have a rectangular cross-sectional configuration as shown in the drawings, but other cross-sectional configurations may be alternatively employed. Ring 27 has an upper support surface, such as upper flat surface 29, on which load ring 9 rests when the hanger-load ringretainer ring assembly is made up and as it is lowered into the head 7.
Load ring 9 preferably comprises a substantially solidbodied, split annular metal element, e.g., of 4140 steel or other material compatible with conventional wellhead equipment. Load ring 9 preferably has a configuration which assumes a substantially complete, circular ring shape in its contracted or non-actuated state, which has been cut transversely in one location completely through the ring body. Load ring 9 is slidably mounted around intermediate portion 15 of hanger 1, and is retained thereon by retainer ring 27.
Load ring 9 includes a lower body portion 31 having a substantially circular cylindrical outer wall surface 33 and a substantially flat lower face 35. Above lower body portion 31, load ring 9 includes an outwardly extending flange portion 37 with a substantially circular cylindrical outer wall surface 39. Between cylindrical outer wall surfaces 33, 39 load ring 9 has a downwardly facing, downwardly and inwardly tapering, frustoconical load bearing surface 41. Load ring 9 further includes a substantially flat upper terminal end face 43, and an upwardly facing, upwardly and inwardly tapering, frustoconical release camming surface 45 between outer wall 39 of flange portion 37 and upper face 43. On the interior periphery of load ring 9, between upper end face 43 and lower end face 35, load ring 9 has an upwardly facing, downwardly and inwardly tapering, frustoconical actuating or camming surface 47. Surface 47 is shaped correlatively to and is slidably engaged by camming surface 17 of hanger 1 for actuating load ring 9 as described further below.
Head 7 includes as part of its interior bore 5 a substantially circular cylindrical bore wall 51 above load support groove 4; a reduced inner diameter, substantially circular cylindrical bore wall 53 between load support groove 3 and 4; and a reduced inner diameter, substantially circular cylindrical bore wall 55 below load support groove 3. The inner diameter of the bore of head is less at wall 53 than it is at wall 51, thereby forming an annular no-go shoulder 54 which protrudes into the bore 5 a distance equal to the difference in radii of wall surfaces 51, 53. Likewise, the inner diameter of the bore 5 of head 7 is less at wall 55 than it is at wall 53, thereby forming a second annular no-go shoulder 56. A protrusion of about one-eighth inch for shoulder 56 beyond the profile of wall 53 should be sufficient for beginning actuation of load ring 9 as described further below.
Load support groove 3 includes a substantially circular cylindrical end wall surface 57, an upper wall surface or roof 59 between the upper edge of end wall surface 57 and wall 53, and a load support surface 61 between the lower edge of end wall surface 57 and wall 55. Upper wall surface 59 is a downwardly facing, upwardly and inwardly tapering, frustoconical release camming surface which is shaped correlatively to surface 45 of load ring 9. Load support surface 61 is an upwardly facing, downwardly and inwardly tapering, frustoconical surface which is contiguous with and includes no-go shoulder 56, and is shaped correlatively to surface 41 of load ring 9.
Referring to FIGS. 3 and 4, load ring 9 includes a plurality, e.g. four, of recesses 71 circumferentially spaced apart about its lower outer periphery in cylindrical wall surface 33. When load ring 9 is made up on hanger 1 and retainer ring 27 is threaded onto the hanger behind it, the load ring rests atop the retainer ring with surface 35 of ring 9 supported on surface 29 of ring 27. Load ring 9 will be in its contracted or non-actuated state. Retainer ring 27 is provided with a plurality, e.g. four, of recesses 73 (only one shown) circumferentially spaced apart about its upper outer periphery in circular cylindrical wall surface 75. Each of the recesses 71 is in register with one of the recesses 73 when the load ring is resting atop the retainer ring. A preferably dumbbell-shaped, fracturable cupon (not shown) is disposed between rings 9, 27 in each pair of recesses 71, 73 and is retained therein by friction. The fracturable cupons prevent the load ring 9 from sliding axially upwardly on the hanger, away from the retainer ring, until they are fractured by a predetermined load applied to the cupons through the load ring by the weight of the casing string after the load ring has engaged the no-go shoulder 56. After the cupons have been fractured, the load ring is free to slide upwardly with respect to the hanger, which is effected by the hanger's moving downwardly in the head while the load ring remains stationary on shoulder 56.
Alternatively, load ring 9 may be prevented from moving upwardly with respect to the hanger until a predetermined load has been applied by the casing weight, by a single fracturable cupon disposed in registering recesses in the facing free ends of the load ring, i.e., at the location of the cut. In the event such a single cupon were to be used, there would be no need for any recesses 73 in retainer ring 27. Such a single fracturable cupon would prevent the separation of the free ends of load ring 9, and thereby expansion of the load ring and travel upwardly with respect to the hanger, until fractured by the predetermined casing weight load. Again, after the cupon is fractured, the load ring is free to slide upwardly with respect to the hanger. It should be understood that the load applied to such a single cupon in order to fracture it is that load which is tending to separate the free ends of the load ring, which results from the outwardly directed camming action of surface 17 against surface 47. Due to friction losses, it will probably require more casing weight load to fracture a single cupon disposed between the load ring ends than several of the same size cupons disposed between the load ring and retainer ring.
The fracturable cupons employed in the present invention may be made of bronze, aluminum, or other suitable metal, and may have any suitable shape, such as bone-shaped, dovetailed, I-shaped, or the like, as an alternative to the dumbbell-shaped cupons discussed above. The only requirements are that the cupons remain in place in their recesses during lowering of the hanger into a position in the head whereby the load ring lands on shoulder 56, and that they not fracture until the proper, predetermined load, e.g., a load in the range of about 15,000 lbs., is applied to them by the casing weight after such landing. Alternative means for effecting the results achieved by the cupons may be used, such as wiring the free ends of the load ring together with wire of predetermined strength placed through adjoining anchor holes in the load ring ends. Other equivalent means for preventing premature actuation of load ring 9 will be apparent to those skilled in the art.
In operation, load ring 9 is inserted over the lower end of hanger 1 onto intermediate body portion 15. Retainer ring 27 is then inserted over that same end, threaded connection 23, 25 made up, and the fracturable cupon or cupons, or other appropriate retaining means such as wire binding, installed to prevent premature actuation of the load ring. Hanger 1 with its casing string attached is lowered into head 7 until the radially outermost portion of frustoconical surface 41 of load ring 9 engages and lands upon no-go shoulder 56. It should be noted that in the running in position, with load ring 9 disposed on retainer ring 27, the outer cylindrical wall 39 of load ring 9 does not extend radially outwardly beyond upper cylindrical wall 19 of hanger 1, thereby permitting the load ring 9 to pass downwardly through bores 51, 53 of head 7. With load ring 9 in its running in position, wall 39 does protrude radially outwardly a sufficient distance, however, to interfere with no-go shoulder 56.
After load ring 9 lands on shoulder 56, when the predetermined fracture load has been applied by the casing weight to the cupon or cupons through the load ring, the cupon or cupons fracture, and continued downward movement of the hanger with respect to the load ring cams the load ring radially outwardly, fully onto support surface 61. When annular stop shoulder 21 of hanger 1 engages upper face 43 of load ring 9, downward movement of the hanger stops, and the hanger 1 and casing string 10 attached thereto are suspended from shoulder 61 of groove 3. There is sufficient bearing area between shoulder 61 and surface 41 to support the weight of hanger 1 and the casing string attached thereto, and also the loads applied to hanger 1 by any internal wellhead pressures. The casing string may then be cemented and packed off to complete the setting of that string prior to continued drilling operations and running and setting of the next smaller size of casing. An annular seal member 72 of rubber or other suitable elastomer is disposed on a shoulder 74 around the upper body portion 11 of hanger 1. An actuating ring 76 is disposed on top of seal member 72, and has a chamfered surface around its upper outer periphery for engagement by a hold down screw or lock screw 78. Lock screw 78 has a conicalshaped nose 82 which, when the lock screw is tightened, forces the actuating ring downwardly into actuating engagement with the seal member 72. The conical-shaped nose 82 cams the actuating ring downwardly, when the lock screw is tightened, by engaging the chamfered surface of the actuating ring. When the actuating ring is forced downwardly, the seal member 72 is squeezed such that it expands into sealing engagement with the wall 52 of hanger 1.
Referring again to FIG. 1, it can thus be seen that with the present invention, a suitable load shoulder for hanger 1 and its attached casing 10 may be run through the relatively restricted bores 51, 53 of head 7, and hence through a similarly restricted bore through the BOP stack mounted above head 7. Another recessed load support groove 4 may be provided in the wall 51 of head 7 above groove 3, for supporting the next smaller size casing string. Wall surface 53 may comprise the no-go shoulder for such additional load support groove 4. Hanger 2 with casing 12 attached is lowered into the wellhead such that casing 12 is received within casing 10. It should be understood that a third and subsequent load support grooves, e.g., groove 80, may likewise be added above the second groove 4, with the cylindrical bore wall surface of head 7 above each groove serving as the no-go shoulder for the next higher groove. The next smaller size casing hanger, which will be suspended from groove 80, is indicated in phantom lines in FIG. 1. It is believed that six or more casing strings may easily be accommodated in a casing head constructed in accordance with the present invention. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that such a plurality of casing strings may be run and set with the present invention without removal of the BOP stack between strings, and without any special tools to actuate the load rings. The load rings are actuated by casing weight alone. If it were necessary to remove hanger 1 from head 7 after load ring 9 has been actuated, the hanger is simply lifted straight up. Since load ring 9 is expanded into full engagement with groove 3 while remaining within its elastic limits, ring 9 will collapse back into its contracted state when surface 17 is backed away from surface 47 as hanger 1 is lifted. Should there be some resistance in ring 9 collapsing into its retracted state such that it tends to rise in groove 3 as hanger 1 is raised, the engagement of surface 45 against surface 59 of head 7 will cam ring 9 back into contraction. In addition, the chamfer provided by tapered surface 45 of load ring 9 assists in raising the load ring past any obstructions in the BOP stack, since it helps the load ring bounce or deflect away from any such obstructions.
Although the present invention is particularly useful for hanging a plurality of casing strings from a single head, it should be understood that its utility is not limited to that. Other uses of the expanding load shoulder and recessed load support groove of the present invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art. For example, and not by way of limitation, the present invention may be incorporated in a test plug mounted between the BOP stack and the casing hanger for testing the BOP stack. The loads applied in pressure testing the BOP stack are greater than those which can be accommodated by conventional casing heads, but the expanding load shoulder of the present invention when incorporated in a test plug will be able to withstand such increased loads.
While preferred embodiments of the invention have been shown and described, many modifications thereof may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of the invention. Accordingly, the scope of the invention should be determined in accordance with the following claims.
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By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
Published: November 7, 1999
WHO was the most popular American artist of the century? Norman Rockwell, obviously.
The Saturday Evening Post already had a circulation of two million readers a week when Rockwell first walked through its doors in 1916. You might say that the magazine was akin to what television became in terms of general appeal, and Rockwell quickly rose to be its premier draftsman, doing 322 covers during the next 47 years. In addition, he illustrated advertisements for Jell-O, Crest and a slew of other popular products. The New Yorker in 1945 estimated that Rockwell's Boy Scout calendars were glanced at 1.6 billion (billion!) times each day. A couple of years before he died in 1978, at 84, 10,000 people turned out for a Rockwell parade in tiny Stockbridge, Mass., where he lived with his third wife, Molly Punderson, a retired schoolteacher. The parade was an unheard-of tribute to an American artist, but it was nothing, in sheer numbers, compared with the 200,000 people a year who pass through the Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge.
Naturally this kind of popularity guarantees contempt from the art world, which, for more than half a century, despised Rockwell as a cornball sentimentalist.
So what do you know? Yesterday at the High Museum in Atlanta began a national tour of works by Rockwell that ends up in 2001 at the Guggenheim in Manhattan. Let's put aside the cynical observation -- this is Norman Rockwell, after all, no cynicism allowed -- that a Rockwell show is cunning box office, even better box office, perhaps, than a show of motorcycles or pictures with elephant dung attached to the Virgin Mary. Could it be that art professionals, or a few of them anyway, are coming around to thinking he's a good artist?
Well, yes. He is a good artist, on his own terms, every good artist being good on some terms or other. Besides microscopic verisimilitude, Rockwell's terms involved squeaky-clean pleasure, which, more than anything else, made sophisticated art critics and art historians cringe, because that sort of pleasure, combined with the simple sentimentality of the work, defied the fundamental credo of modernism that good art should be difficult if not (better yet) discomforting. To the cognoscenti, the almost complete lack of any sorrow or suffering in Rockwell's pictures was a clear sign that he was a lightweight. One essay in the show's catalog even argues that Rockwell's sanitized small-town vision ''simplified unmercifully and reassured inappropriately'' because it belied the ''noisy, disorderly, crowded, smelly and dynamic'' realities of urban America. This is the no pain, no gain philosophy of art history.
American art has got itself into a curious pickle at the end of the millennium. An artist like Rockwell, who gave millions of people pleasure, is discounted because he gave millions of people pleasure. Pleasure is O.K. only if it's clearly subordinated to instruction. Puritanism being embedded in the national psyche, it has led to the idea that art ought to be not just good but good for us -- a ridiculous presumption, if you think about it, because culture is no more inherently moral than cooking or football, except when it chooses to be.
Rockwell's art was actually weakest when, in his later years, he tried to make himself into a more ''serious'' artist by turning out ''important'' works like ''The Problem We All Live With,'' of Ruby Bridges, a young black girl, on her way to her newly integrated school in New Orleans. The picture is vivid and right-minded but also didactic, and it signaled, as the critic Dave Hickey has put it, ''the end of Rockwell's instinctive identification with the citizens he painted and the beginning of his tenure as a member of the nation's new, therapeutic, power elite.''
From the beginning Rockwell's art had a moral undercurrent, of course, but it was an undercurrent, the work being primarily a comic form of escapism in a sugary old-fogey mode, no more real than Poussin's Arcadia or the Andy Griffith show -- ''life as I would like it to be,'' Rockwell once explained.
It helps to recall that he had a crisis of identity in the 1930's. He went to Paris to look into becoming an abstract artist until he realized that it wasn't for him and returned after seven months to New Rochelle, N.Y. ''I paint ordinary people in everyday situations, and that's about all I do,'' he concluded. He continued to have what his son, Peter, called a ''tortured relationship'' with his art, and he suffered occasional bouts of depression. But he settled on what came naturally to him, in spite of the disdain of an art world he admired, a decision that was admirable on Rockwell's part, not to mention a wise business move.
It was possible, he realized, to be serious about painting and to take pleasure in illustrations for popular magazines, something generally regarded as a contradictory position in a culture that, out of insecurity or mistaken priorities or simple snobbism, continues to divide a taste for high art from a taste for low art as if they were mutually exclusive.
But who says people can't like Willem de Kooning and Norman Rockwell? As a matter of fact, they liked each other.


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College Station - The seventh-ranked Texas A&M soccer team scored two goals in the first half and handed No. 10 Oklahoma State its first loss of the season, 2-1, on Friday evening in front of 3, 378 fans at the Aggie Soccer Stadium.
Freshman Jennifer Kmezich headed in the game winner and senior Laura Grace Robinson netted the first goal of the match as the Aggie defense held the Cowgirls (9-1-1, 1-1-1 Big 12) to a season-low, single goal for just the second time this season.
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A&M (9-1-1, 2-0-1 Big 12) wasted no time on the attack and two minutes into the match freshman Beth West was fouled at the top of the penalty box. Fellow freshman Bri Young took the free kick which was blocked by the OSU wall. West collected the ball inside the 18-yard box and pushed it through OSU defenders to the foot of Robinson on the right side. The keeper was pulled out and Robinson was able to put the ball inside the far post to get the Aggies out quick, 1-0.
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