Word: breton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Private Life: Prefers his modest apartment in Paris' Auteuil quarter, but spends most of his long working days at his official residence, the Hotel Matignon. He and his wife Anne have two married daughters, six granddaughters. His favorite relaxation: walking on the Breton seashore...
...Breton fisherman, Pierre Tal-Coat has been a long time getting-out from under the older generation's thumb. Beginning his career in his teens, he taught himself by studying the styles of the artists he admired most. As he wandered from Brittany to Paris to Provence and back again, he worked his way through the rough-stroked techniques of the expressionists to the slick, brashly colored abstractions of Picasso...
...Foreign Correspondent and 1938 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Journalism; Dorothy Fosdick, Member of the State Department's Policy Planning Committee; Belle Sherwin, a founder and first President of the League of Women Voters; Mabel Newcomer, Professor of Economics at Vassar and a former members of the UN Conference at Breton Woods; and Ruth Baker Pratt, first woman to represent New York State in Congress...
...Barn. Christened Katherine Sage about a half-century ago, Kay left Albany for Italy when she was only three. In the '20s she married and divorced an Italian prince, later learned with Poet Andre Breton and Painter Yves Tanguy to ride the surrealist tide. In 1939 she returned to the U.S., closely followed by Tanguy, to whom she was married a year later. Today the two artists live in a pale yellow farmhouse near Woodbury, Conn, and paint in the barn...