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When asked what he studied at Middlebury College in Vermont, Painter Alan Gussow answers: "American literature and the Vermont landscape." Now 30, Gussow still majors in landscapes and seascapes, and he achieves a rare blend of strength and delicacy. At times he seems to be rough with his subject. He dissects the land, shreds the sky, churns up the sea; yet instead of seeming shattered, his images take on new life. Gussow's first Manhattan show, at the Peridot Gallery, is one of the freshest of the season...
...winner of the Prix de Rome at 21, Gussow learned in Europe "not how to paint, but how to love art. When I went over," he confides with some embarrassment, "I hadn't even heard of Botticelli." He stayed in Europe two years, devouring the museums, but it was not until he got back home that his own work seemed to take on meaning. Gussow found his inspiration in the countryside most familiar to him-the hills and valleys around Congers, N.Y., where he bought a house, and the sea around Maine's Monhegan Island, where he spends...
...editorial staff discovered it had some lovely reasons for an impromptu party: three orchid-decked researchers ablush and abeam with plans for marriage. Education's Marjorie Burns will be married to Research Physicist A. Bruce Brown Jr. on Oct. 19, Art's Joan Dye to Artist Alan Gussow on Oct. 21, and Foreign News's Monica von Swogetinsky to Lawyer Dudley Devine in December or January. Cheers and best wishes...
George C. Ault, Peggy Bacon, Emile Branchard, Alexander Brook, Glenn 0. Coleman, Stuart Davis, Hunt Diederich, Duncan Ferguson, Ernest Fiene, Arnold Friedman, Wood Gaylor, Anne Goldthwaite, Bernar Gussow, Samuel Halpert, George O. ("Pop") Hart, Stefan Hirsch, Morris Kantor, Bernard Karfiol, Walt Kuhn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Richard Lahey, Robert Laurent, Louis Lozowick, Reuben Nakian, Jules Pascin, Joseph Pollet, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, Dorothy Varian, A. Walkowitz, Max Weber, Marguerite and William Zorach...