Word: collector
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fences. But in the past six years, U.S. art lovers have become accustomed to seeing the works of Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Lindner and Ben Shahn on posters boosting concerts, festivals and even the presidential campaign. Many of the best were inspired by a Connecticut grandmother and art collector named Vera List...
...never actually told him in so many words that it would not do. "Next thing I knew," Grosvenor recalls, "they were buying $9,000 trees to put where my piece was supposed to go." Grosvenor is currently at work on a huge rainbow-like arc, commissioned by a Newport collector, that will curve out and downward from a 30-ft. cliff near the ocean. Even a $9,000 tree, he figures, would have trouble growing downward...
...rest room without someone asking for an autograph." Moreover, he adds, "Ninetynine out of a hundred people I meet want to talk about only one thing, baseball, and that doesn't make for very interesting conversation. Just suppose, for example, that you were a garbage collector and every day about a hundred people stopped you and asked how much garbage you collected that day and how much you expected to collect the next...
...Shown publicly only once before in the 43 years since it was painted, it will not be seen in the "Dada, Surrealism" show, which moved from New York to Los Angeles last week. The painting's owner, Belgian Collector René Gaffe, loaned it only for the exhibit's Manhattan appearance...
...Passion. For centuries, village priests have used instructional dolls to teach children Bible stories, and Girard's collector's eye spotted one particularly vivid scene: a depiction of bearded Noah and Mrs. Noah presiding over an ark of candy-colored animals. Villagers labor for months to produce a panoramic Nativity scene for display during the Christmas season. Girard has assembled 200 Mexican figures which would originally have served as background in Nativity scenes, into one tableau. It portrays the busy market that thrives in any village on a fiesta day. To add a contemporary note, he even introduced...