Word: impressioniste
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...reception in the Fogg Art Museum following the wedding. The president embraced his mother, Anita A. Summers, as members of both families greeted each other on the steps of the Fogg. The museum, home to the University’s prized collections of early Renaissance and Impressionist artwork, was transformed for the evening into a modest reception hall in the main foyer that hosted an assortment of the couple’s friends, family, and colleagues. The boldface names of Harvard’s administrative ranks were almost all in attendance, having trudged through the snow-sloshed streets...
...work until the time of his death.Although Manne was well-respected for his intellectual accomplishments, friends and colleagues say they regarded him as a generous and well-rounded man. “He was broadly educated and enjoyed reading history, and he loved classical music, and he loved Impressionist art,” his daughter said. “He spoke languages—and he was still studying languages—and he loved to travel.”Manne developed a new passion for horseback riding at the age of 65.A close friend and colleague, Nobel Laureate...
Though many consider Degas an early—and influential—impressionist, his work reflects classical training, and his experimentation with a variety of media defies easy classification...
Fitzpatrick may have wanted to be first in the door, but Armand Hammer, 87, chairman of Occidental Petroleum and a promoter of Soviet-American relations for more than 60 years, was already inside the room. Several years ago, Hammer had seen a Soviet exhibition of impressionist and postimpressionist paintings in Switzerland. He asked the Minister of Culture if he could borrow it for the U.S. too, but nothing happened until after the summit agreement. Under a deal Hammer and Carter Brown worked out, the National Gallery has already sent 40 impressionist paintings to the U.S.S.R. (Hammer also has loaned...
...DIED. FRANK GORSHIN, 72, rubbery-faced impressionist-actor who channeled his passion for film idols, nourished as a teenage cinema usher in Pittsburgh, into a 54-year career in Las Vegas clubs, on TV and in more than 80 movies; in Burbank, California. With his aping of Al Jolson, James Cagney and Marlon Brando, Gorshin was a regular on the Ed Sullivan Show, where he was a guest the night the Beatles made their U.S. TV debut. ("Look at all these kids that came to see me!" he said backstage.) But he gained his greatest fame playing the Riddler...