Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atheneum never lost its head over the moderns. It has had a friendly eye for such conservatives as Eakins and Andrew Wyeth, has spent much of recent purchase budgets (currently more than $50,000 a year) to build up its stock of the Renaissance and baroque schools. This year's latest acquisition is The Tiger Hunt by Rubens (1577-1640). And the most popular painting in the whole collection is still a crisply clear, 18th-century portrait of Mrs. Seymour Fort by John Singleton Copley (TIME...
When Pittsburgh Banker Andrew W. Mellon gave Washington its $15 million art gallery in 1937, he made a condition: it must not bear his name. He suggested it be called simply the National Gallery of Art, and his wish was officially respected.* But four years ago, some of Mellon's Pittsburgh friends decided that he had been anonymous long enough. They raised more than $300,000 and commissioned architects to design a tribute. Last week, on a triangular plot across from the Gallery, a classically simple bronze fountain was dedicated. A nearby bench of granite bears the inscription: "Andrew...
Yellin said after the performance that he has begun a full-length opera based on an incident in the life of Andrew Jackson. If he can avoid all the errors he made in his first effort, he may yet produce a good opera in the Thompson-Blitzstein tradition...
Typical of cheapie methods are those used by Oldtime Director Andrew (Stormy Weather) Stone. Stone hired a cameraman and two players (Hillary Brooke, Tom Conway) and began shooting a TV film series. When he needed an apartment set, he rented a furnished apartment for one day (at $75). For scenes in a wealthy man's home, Stone used his own in Brentwood. When the script called for a more modest home, he rented one in California's San Fernando Valley for a day, moved the family out until shooting was over. He even used a real police station...
...cover of the April issue, variously attributed to Michael Zimmer and Andrew Zimmer, is tasteful and appealing, in keeping with the generally high standard of recent Advocate covers...