Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roswell (pop. 25,000) was a sleepy little cow town when Hurd was a kid. He left it for two happy but unbrilliant years at West Point, later spent five years with the late Illustrator N.C. Wyeth, at Chadds Ford, Pa., learning to paint. Hurd married Wyeth's artist daughter Henriette, then moved back to New Mexico, where the Kurds and their three children have taken joyfully to ranch life. Says Hurd, who has gone on painting junkets to Egypt, Hawaii, Nigeria, India, England, Italy, Brazil and Morocco: "It just happens that this part of the planet is where...
...could do was partially demonstrated this week in a little church in the village of Assy, which celebrated the formal dedication of two handsome stained-glass windows, portraying Saints Veronica and Martha, by the famed contemporary French painter Georges Rouault. Father Couturier had conceived the idea and asked the artist to carry it out. But busy Dominican Couturier was not present at the ceremonies. He was talking to Painter Henri Matisse about the decoration of a chapel for nuns at Vence...
...whether that actual physical touch will do what you want it to." At 45, Sutherland is one of Britain's best landscape painters; until lately he had never tackled realistic portraiture. When his first try, a full-length oil of Author Somerset Maugham, was finished last week, artist and sitter agreed that the gamble had paid...
...want to travel around the country," said Artist O'Brady. "Also I'll have to visit Evanston. Papa-he's 84 now-is still spouting steam because I'm a painter." In Evanston, Gertrude O'Brady would be remembered as a blonde girl named McBrady (she modified her name to make it easier for the French to pronounce). Now, at 43, she sometimes fumbles English words, her braids are red instead of blonde, and she has made art-loving Paris take her work and like...
...hard for a writer in the Western tradition to understand the atmosphere of Russia," admitted Novelist Thomas Mann, "hard for him to understand a man like Shostakovich kneeling down before the authorities. And yet, after all, in the Middle Ages artists lived under the dogma of the church and felt relatively free. It is possible-is it possible?-for an artist to function within a frame of philosophy .whose limits cannot be transcended ... I don't know...