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"More to Say." He began painting spheres of all sizes, combinations and complexity, weaving them inside each other and coloring them simply and brightly. During World War I, Portuguese police who saw him painting enormous disks on vast expanses of canvas at his seaside villa near Lisbon suspected him of...
More than a century ago a handful of romantic painters from Manhattan discovered the good life on summer outings to the leafy glades of the Catskills (and incidentally founded the first self-conscious U.S. regional group, the Hudson River School). Ever since, artists have made it a habit to pack...
Hooray for Mr. John Maass and his kind words about the long-abused American Victorian house [July 1]. My husband and I live in one of them with our three small sons who fight over the privilege of sleeping in the "tower room." I wouldn't trade the house...
Salvation in a Shed. There was only one instinct, one Air Force rule of survival, to follow: go downstream. And down Pilot Steeves struggled day after day-crawling, hobbling and sliding through snow-filled gorges, sleeping in hollow logs and under sheltering rocks. In 18 days he went 25 miles...
The best Kelly-on-canvas is from the brush of Sidney Nolan, 40, whose current show at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery is getting rave reviews and earning him recognition as Australia's leading painter. Nolan first heard of Ned Kelly from his grandfather, a fourth-generation Australian...