Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hall and Town Hall. Boston's Jordan Hall, Orchestra Hall in Chicago, and at most of the nation's major folk festivals. In addition, the Blue Grass Boys have appeared at numerous colleges and universities across the country. Recently Bill has even made appearances overseas. An exclusive Decca recording artist, Bill Monroe can be heard on thirteen L.P.'s on that label, as well as on recently re-issued old masters on Columbia and R.C.A. Victor...
Tart Colors. Success was slow in coming. Born in 1893 in Altmar, N.Y., Avery spent his youth in Hartford, Conn., and never gave art a thought until he heard that commercial artists could make $200 a week-a princely income in those days. He enrolled-at the Y.M.C.A. The lettering course was full, and so he signed up for a drawing class instead. It was his only formal training, but it was enough: he had fallen in love with art. In 1925, he joined an artist's colony at Gloucester, Mass., where he met another aspiring young artist named...
Though he won little public acclaim until late in his life, Avery was early known as an artist's artist. His Manhattan studio became a gathering place for many newcomers, among them Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb. Avery and friends sketched frequently at each other's homes. Seated Blonde resulted from one such session in 1946, when the model turned out to be a strapping 6-ft. beauty named Stella, daughter of that week's host. Avery combined pink with burnt sienna, magenta and crimson, with all the jangling dissonance of half a dozen crashing cymbals...
There are similarities, to be sure. Color was the mainspring for both artists, and both treated objects as elements in a pattern. But there are also profound differences. Where Matisse's colors are voluptuous, ripe, filled with the warmth of the Mediterranean, Avery's are tart, eccentric, northern. "Matisse was a hedonist," Sally observes. "Milton was a puritanical man of very simple tastes." His uniquely charming celebration of the world around him, with its dry mirth and insistent individuality, is the legacy of an artist who was in every sense strictly...
...lickerish cleric. Together with Peckinpah's usual stock company of Martin and Jones, they make the old desert as real and recent as yesterday. With this film, Peckinpah unmistakably becomes the successor to John Ford, not only as a director of westerns but as an American film artist...