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...their 57-day trek (of 14,450 miles) about Australia, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh drove out into the countryside from the bustling city of Perth and ate a leisurely picnic lunch. Two days later, leaving in her wake the cacophonous cheers and steam whistles, the Gothic hove westward across the Indian Ocean, bound for the Cocos Islands and Ceylon...
Fame & Fortune. Now 33, Mathieu has already made his fame in Europe, sells everything he paints. Slim, dapper, cultivated, he occupies a town house furnished with fine Gothic furniture and Persian carpets, in the fashionable La Muette section of Paris. He whips out small paintings in as little as ten minutes, and even his huge pictures require no more than a couple of hours to paint. This, as Mathieu is frank to point out, leaves him "lots of time for other activi ties . . . I'm keenly interested in modern music, philosophy, mathematics, poetry, literature...
Spectacular Fireworks. Dumont's favorite subject was cathedrals, and his favorite cathedral was the magnificent Gothic pile in his home town of Rouen. He painted Rouen Cathedral in all lights, seasons and moods. His cathedrals are done in somber but pleasant colors, applied thickly in the manner of Dumont's more famous fellow sufferer, Vincent Van Gogh (opposite). His scenes of Normandy, Montmartre and Marseille and his still lifes are gayer, more vivacious, and show a love of life again strikingly similar to that evidenced in Van Gogh's brilliantly blobbed canvases. Like Van Gogh, Dumont also...
...came to me while I was milking a cow," yet his best idea occured on a trip to Europe in 1928. It was simply to apply the smooth, meticulous style of the German and Flemish primitives to the American scene. Result: quick and spectacular success. Wood's American Gothic -a head-on portrayal of a sour, bald farmer with a pitchfork and his tight-lipped wife -became an icon for Paint America Firsters...
...Elizabethan vintage, serpentine electric light brackets, and suits of Japanese armor. A solid oak table stands in the center, and is deeply carved with the initials of early members who had heard that the editors of Punch possessed a similar piece. Huge oak beams form a ceiling of gothic arches, and the sun streams diagonally through leaded windows flecked with remnants of ancient stained glass. The building's Cambridge debut caused no little comment from local journalists. Most outspoken was the Evening Transcript, which called it an "architectural joke...