Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farmers had seen a bearded man known as a painter near the hut. That brought in another suspect, an Existentialist artist named Georges Patrix, several of whose canvases hung in Roumeguere's Paris apartment. But Patrix was also cleared...
Ernest Thompson Seton, naturalist-writer-artist since everybody's childhood (Wild Animals I Have Known, Two Little Savages), had a good word for the young as he turned 86. He reported that "there are all kinds of youth in this day-mostly good...
...usually very pleasant." But on her rare visits to the U.S., Gertrude Stein had never made Manhattan's massive Metropolitan Museum one of her haunts: it had no windows in its picture galleries. Furthermore, with all its millions it had never purchased a painting by her favorite artist, Picasso. The chromium-plated, slick Museum of Modern Art, with windows as wide as walls, was more to her taste: it had done more than all other U.S. museums to publicize Picasso...
When Mary Wigman did her stark, muscular, barefoot dances before U.S. audiences in the early '30s, some of the irreverent wrote the exhibition off as prancing, lunging and posturing. But critics wrote respectfully of "a personal and spiritual force, concentrated, emanated, outflung." After 1933, like many another German artist, she was seldom seen and little noted by the rest of the world. Last week Mary Wigman, past 60 and vibrant as ever, turned up in Berlin to reopen her once-famed modern dance school...
Born in Baltimore, Marie Schultze won her R.N. in three years' hard work at Presbyterian Hospital in Newark, was sent to Chile in 1927 by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. In Santiago, she turned an old artist's studio in the slums into a six-bed clinic. To persuade the poor, superstitious women that they should have their children at the clinic, tall, good-natured Nurse Schultze gave free care for the first six months of her new enterprise in charity...