Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...search of new acquisitions finds himself in much the same position as a stockbroker in a runaway bull market. If he buys the current favorites, he will get popular pictures-at an inflated price. The cheaper but far riskier alternative is to buy undervalued art of a period or artist not yet discovered or out of fashion. This is the course chosen by Director Sherman Lee of Cleveland's Museum of Art, who invested the museum's $1,731,557 purchase fund for 1967 in 132 different works...
...world was at our fingertips." Even today, Graffman often refers to recordings by other pianists in developing his own musical outlook. "When I first work on a piece, I deliberately avoid hearing other performances. Then, when it is respectably well along, I listen to all recordings, because every great artist will have something...
...Brother-in-law of Artist Andrew Wyeth, whose own brother Nathaniel happens to be a Du Pont engineer...
Watching Hope among. people, says Artist Marion Pike, a family friend, is "a most moving experience." As he ambles through a crowd, eyes light and smiles turn on in swift progression, like a series of lamps brightening up a corridor. What the crowds, large or small, recognize is not only a man who has made them laugh but one who, without sentimentality, ostentation or ballyhoo, has become a national hero. The trophy room in Hope's North Hollywood home is filled like an overendowed museum with awards, honorary degrees and gifts that would be the envy of a Nobel...
...that constant striving for purity that fed his artistic and spiritual life. While carousing in the Caucasus, he wrote Story of My Childhood-which was instantly accepted for publication and drew praise from Turgenev and Dostoevsky. Later, in the Crimea, Tolstoy served bravely as an artillery officer and wrote Sevastopol Sketches, which, in their fidelity to the sweep and detail of battle, rank as some of the best war correspondence of all time. The very flaws and inconsistencies that he displayed during those years would, as Troyat notes, "later enable him to embrace the attitudes of each of his characters...