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Ecole des Beaux-Arts Montreal
Until last week the Kitchen-Sinkers were resounding critical successes but financial flops. The first of the New Realists to win cash along with credit is Edward Middleditch, 32. Time & Tide's critic noted that Artist Middleditch's current exhibit at London's Beaux Arts Gallery "seems to be continually attempting things that have not been done before" and rated him "the most original and interesting of the younger men." The Observer agreed, found it difficult to name a British contemporary "so exciting and fertile." The buyers backed the critics; Middleditch wound up his show with...
...Hattie went to work as a messenger in Macy's basement. Even then, rotating a wardrobe of one skirt and three blouses, she had style and taste. Rose Roth, a neighborhood seamstress, noticed it, and persuaded Hattie to model Roth dresses at the theaters and restaurants where her beaux took...
Whatever the gimmick, Frenchmen of all walks of life were enthusiastic about the strip. "I support the striptease out of admiration for female loveliness and respect for human dignity," boomed 73-year-old Professor Edmond Heuze of the Beaux Arts Academy. "It's better," said Amateur Champion Yvette Masson, a typist, "than being cooped up in an office...
...despised impressionists. There congregated the unbought painters, including Toulouse-Lautrec, then 23, and swashbuckling Paul Gauguin, 39, the onetime stockbroker who was now a full-fiedged painter just back from Panama and Martinique, roaring with contempt as he shook his carved cane like a fencing master before the academic Beaux Arts paintings hanging on the walls about them. Among them the clodhopperish. red-bearded Dutchman Vincent van Gogh, 34. Art Dealer van Gogh's younger brother, recently arrived in Paris, was usually a silent onlooker. He was content to drink in the new, exciting talk of pure, shadowless colors...