Word: brookes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Painter Alexander Brook, the first goal of an artist should be "to make each work more magical than the one before." This gets harder as a man gets older. But last week in the summer port of Ogunquit, Me., a new one-man show of 31 paintings by Brook shows that the magic has been pretty well distributed over a long lifetime. The show reaches back to 1924, ranges in subject from an affectionate portrait of a puppy, to broad, brooding landscapes, to snapshots of young girls caught at some moment of loneliness. Brook is a lusty personality who uses...
After conducting the traditional morning ceremonies and awarding the first 11 honoraries, Conant finally reached General Marshall, "an American to whom freedom owes an enduring debt of gratitude, a soldier and statesman whose ability and character brook only one comparison in the history of this nation...
...past three years, Verkauf has been responsible for selling about 100 pictures by André Verlon; he arranged one-man shows for him in Munich and Düsseldorf, found gallery outlets for him in Paris, Basel and Milan. Last week Verlon was on show at the Brook Street Gallery in London, and Manhattan's D'Arcy Galleries will exhibit his work next fall. André Verlon is doing nicely for a man who does not exist...
...Catlett Marshall addressed the first postwar Commencement at Harvard. This is the story of his epochal speech. morning ceremonies and awarding the first 11 honoraries, Conant finally reached General Marshall, "an American to whom freedom owes an enduring debt of gratitude, a soldier and statesman whose ability and character brook only one comparison in the history of this nation...
Half & Half. Gradually, over the last three decades, Robert Frost has abandoned the subject matter that made him famous - woods softly filling with snow, the birches and stone walls of New Eng land, the brook in the back pasture, the tang in autumn air at apple-picking time - and he no longer attempts the lyric intensity of his earlier works. Increasingly, he is content with sententious verse written with the negligent, remembered skill of a master craftsman. The old man is fascinated by the adventuring spirit of man. Many of his poems are half wisdom and half whimsy, and Frost...