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...John D. Rockefeller III can afford to experiment, since she keeps her modern art purchases in a guest house. The boldest of collectors, she is also the most reticent, and springs from rather than to the defense of her choices. Along with distinguished sculptures by such European moderns as Brancusi, Giacometti, Lipschitz and Marini, she buys the smear-technique abstractions of such avant-garde Manhattanites as Baziotes, Motherwell, Rothko and Tomlin. Her hand-dribbled Jackson Pollock (see cut) is appropriately small...
...irony that he should be lying helpless on a cot when the Alamo is stormed by Santa Anna's men on March 6, 1836. Even then he sells his life pretty dearly. Bowie's four pistols account for four Mexicans. A fifth, "the boldest of them, lay with the knife buried in his heart...
Getting the friendly curves of sea and bathers into his work seemed to do little to increase Laurens' popularity. While his friends issued manifestoes, wrangled and sold their boldest experiments on a booming art market, Laurens worked quietly, and his sculpture piled up in the shady garden of his house outside Paris...
...Syracuse) University received a grant of $1.5 million dollars form the estate of the late Mary Margaret Shaw. The Daily Orange gave the story an eight-column banner headline in its boldest type with a story running two columns on the front page...
...French. Liu trained for his profession at the Red Army Academy in Moscow, once fought with the Red Russians against Manchurian Warlord Chang Tso-lin, led the vanguard of the epic Long March from central China to Yenan in 1934-35, rates as one of the army's boldest tacticians...