Word: florally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once he put them on view, Smith's landscapes, his luscious nudes lounging against brilliant pillows, his masterful floral pieces quickly earned him a reputation as England's foremost colorist. In his one-man show last year he sold ?10,000 worth of pictures in the first two days...
...edges, Renoir doted on what was pretty, could see no reason for painting the drab and bizarre. Even Montmartre's famous dance hall, Le Moulin de la Galette, he peopled with gay, attractive couples instead of the garishly lit libertines and doxies of Toulouse-Lautrec. The landscapes and floral pieces which Renoir did for "mental relaxation" glowed with the pure bright colors which he confidently splashed onto his canvases without even bothering to mix on his palette...
...cards." The chances of his stopping are slim; Koerner now lives largely for his painting and his Manhattan exhibitions have sold well enough (up to $3,000 for an oil) to keep him comfortable. Divorced, he lives alone in a railroad apartment in Brooklyn, the furniture painted with gay floral patterns by himself. On the living-room mantel is a female statuette from a drugstore win dow. The studio walls are covered with working sketches and reproductions of Giotto-"my greatest teacher...
...nine years Britain's Queen Mary had been diligently plying her needle. Last week she summoned reporters to see the result. A carpet measuring nearly-seven by ten feet, it consisted of twelve panels in gros point and a not-quite-finished floral border. Each panel bore a bright Victorian design of birds and flowers on a beige background...