Word: guerard
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...there's a similarity between an American painter of sublime, theatrical Western scenery like Albert Bierstadt and an Australian one like the more modest Eugene von Guerard, it isn't accidental. Both received the same training at the Dusseldorf Academy and acquired skill at the tight, glossy, detailed rendering of grandiose scenes. Von Guerard joined the gold rush to Australia in 1852 but failed as a prospector, and made a career for 30 years painting two kinds of scenery: portraits of the settled acres of the well-to-do pastoralists; and views of more exotic wildness, from the bizarrely sculpted...
...said Owens, who has been working on two hours of sleep a night. "We got out with our lives, and the rest of it we can rebuild if we keep helping each other like we have been." Her 92-year-old father, Willard Guerard, had to be rescued by helicopter from his farm near East Grand Forks. Asked where his daughter, who has gone from virtual anonymity to daily appearances on national television, got her wits and her will, he said, "From me." As a girl, he added, Pat farmed potatoes with her dad, and feeling the earth in your...