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...Peggy's finest moment came during her World War II years in Manhattan, when she opened her now famous "Art of This Century" gallery. There she gave one-man shows to a group of such young unknowns as Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb, thus foster-mothering the generation that was to make the U.S. a world art power. "Abstract expression began in my gallery," she says. "You couldn't explain it. It was like a sudden burst of flame." Peggy fed the fire as long as she could resist returning to Europe...
Died. Milton Clark Avery, 71, pre-abstract-expressionist painter whose studies of blocky, faceless figures and wispy, grey-green seascapes in the 1920s drew a blank with the public, yet so inspired such young artists as Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb that he became a pivotal influence on them, even though he himself had to wait until the 1950s before his own primitivistic, relatively representational canvases finally brought as much as $10,000; after a long illness; in New York City...
...fishermen into bouillabaisse for Max Ernst, Jean Hélion and Fernand Léger when they were war refugees in the Hamptons, says, "I am crazy about the sky. It's like Paris." City Landscapist Jane Wilson likes the change. Moreover, Art lives comfortably with Wealth. Adolph Gottlieb is a neighbor to one of the U.S.'s richest in-surancemen. He reports that "if you say to a cocktail party of brokers out here, 'I'm a painter,' they understand. They are interested...
Clive is known for his study, "Scotch Reviewers: The 'Edinburgh Review' 1802-1815," published in 1957. With Oscar Handlin, he edited Gottlieb Mittelbergor's "Journey to Pennsylvania in 1750." He is currently working on a volume entitled "The World of Macaulay...
...small Stuttgart electrical shop, where Robert Bosch in 1886 started a modest business to install lightning rods, doorbells and telephones. He soon devised a new magneto-ignition that was superior to existing types, and in 1896 entered the young automobile business. He grew wealthy supplying such auto pioneers as Gottlieb Daimler, but continually worried over the money he made. Bosch gave away $5 million in World War I profits, explaining: "The profit I was making while other people were losing their lives depressed me." An old man by the time World War II broke out, Bosch began to worry about...