Word: gardenful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Better a garden In Kansas City than a park in Utopia...
Water color is one medium at which Englishmen have generally excelled; Nash's handling of it was traditionally deft and cool. He turned his back on the cities and factories, and painted in the serenity of his own garden and his grey-carpeted studio. Almost no human figures marred the privacy of the world he painted. Aside from his technique, and a faintly romantic air, there was nothing traditional about that world; Nash's water colors and oils alike were halfway abstract. "Nature we need not deny," he once explained, "but art ... should control...
...spends his mornings in the studio, his armchair drawn up to the easel, painting from the model or still life. The window looks out on to the uncared-for garden, and provides the quietest view in the room. Everywhere else one looks is blazing with color: bright silk cushions, bric-a-brac, copper vases, flowers, fruits, costume jewelry, feathers, and yards of vivid material looped over chairs or hanging ready for his models. In one corner stands a huge aviary which used to be flashing with Milanese pigeons (most of them died during the war). An old-fashioned country telephone...
...something soothing in their luxurious brilliance, and they sold well enough to provide him with plenty of armchair comfort. "Tell the American people," he urged a reporter, "that I am a devoted husband and father . . . that I go to the theater, ride horseback, have a comfortable home, a fine garden that I love . . . just like...
...nine months Maggie Teyte studied with Debussy, he hardly said a word to her. ("He was an ogre," says Maggie, "and I was very cold-very English.") But she learned enough from him to take over Mary Garden's role at the Opéra-Comique and make a name for herself as Mèlisande. That was 40 years ago. Last week, although they had often cheered her in recital, Manhattan operagoers finally got to hear Maggie in the role that had first won her fame. It was the first time she had ever sung the full opera...