Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stocky, broad-palmed, Russian-born Maurice Sterne, now 61, used to tend bar by night in order to study art by day. A traditionalist who yet manages to avoid the academic, Painter Sterne is best at variations on familiar themes, when his assured technique puts down in memorable line and color "a nude here, a head there, whatever catches...