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...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...
...amateur artists had worked into the canvases their feelings (mostly bitter, sometimes awed) about the great strange city which is their official home. There was the riot of Times Square at night, the dark sky aglow with the reflected fire of the neon signs (by Claude Bottiau, a young Breton who works in an office supply room at Lake Success); the naked sidewalks of 17th Street, and the inside of a bare room with an iron stove (by IndoChina's Tao-Kim Hai, an expert in U.N.'s trusteeship division...
...long & hard to collect from all over the world the paintings which best represented the renegade Frenchman's art. Fifteen hundred visitors trooped through the Orangerie every day to inspect the pictures of sable-skinned, expressionless Tahitians lounging somnolently along lush tropical shores, the earlier canvases of rolling Breton hills plotted out in poster-clear patches of color. Critics hailed the exhibit. Said one: "The best retrospective show ever staged in France...
...wall hung his last picture, sold at a Papeete auction after his death in 1903 for 7 francs. Amid the warm splendors of his South Sea island retreat, truant Frenchman Gauguin had taken a nostalgic backward look, painted from memory a wintry' Breton village scattered along a low, snow-covered horizon...