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...clouds had parted, and down poured a torrent of scattered forms and heightened colors. "Francis," says Sweeney, "has become a master of decoration in the grand style." The largest Francis, a 13-ft. by 19-ft. canvas called Meaningless Gesture, dominates the museum's cavernous Cullinan Hall, where Sweeney has hung it 15 ft. above the floor...
...Radcliffe Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa elected nine seniors this fall. They are Melanie Adams, of Moors Hall and Lyme, N.H.; Susan Carey, of 124 Walker St. and Washington, D.C.; Katherine Cullinan, of 124 Walker St. and Glenn Ellyn, Ill.; Sondra Gamov, of Jordan J and Teaneck...
Divorced. Craig Francis Cullinan Jr., 37, Texaco oil heir; by Alison Prescott Cullinan, former Manhattan deb; after 11 years of marriage, one daughter: in Houston. Settlement...
When Picasso's 5,000-lb. array of bronze Bathers arrived in Houston last week. Museum of Fine Arts Director James Johnson Sweeney took an anxious look around the museum's Mies van der Rohe-designed Cullinan Hall, wondering where to put them. Then Sweeney, who used to run various museums on the East Coast, recalled that he was in Texas and quickly built a swimming pool for The Bathers' ponderous plunge...
...last week Director Malone put on a display of 60 ultramodern paintings (e.g., France's Hans Hartung and Manhattan's Mark Rothki), hung each picture from the ceiling on picture wire to provide an installation as nearly invisible as the museum's own structure. Donor Cullinan said happily: "The new wing is like a great stage which faces the city. Another might have built a nice, safe building. I wanted something that would be contemporary for generations to come." Touring the building in a wheelchair to spare an ailing hip, Mies agrees: "Buildings last so much longer...