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Though he is only 29, Andrew has been painting for 17 years. He left school at twelve to study in his father's Chadds Ford, Pa. studio with his artist sisters, Carolyn and Henriette (whose husband, New Mexico's Peter Kurd, is also a painter). Andrew had his first one-man show at 20. He sold every painting in it, and has since found buyers for almost everything he paints...
...descriptive paintings was on view. Neighbors from nearby Chadds Ford, where he had lived, came over to take a look and to remember their genial, hard-working friend. They figured his kids might carry on. Three of Wyeth's five children, along with son-in-law Peter Kurd, are artists; son Andrew (28) had already had five one-man shows in Manhattan...
Died. Dorothy Campbell Kurd Howe, 61, only woman who ever won the world's four major women's golf championships: Scottish (1905, 1906, 1908), British (1909, 1911), Canadian (1910, 1912), U.S. (1909, 1910, 1924); from a fall beneath a train which she was boarding; in Yamassee...
...Pearl Harbor defense plant (by Paul Sample) to Texas Artist Torn Lea's literal impressions during the Battle of the Solomons. Notable were a richly colored night scene by Chicagoan Aaron Bohrod of soldiers from Fort Benning, Ga. disporting themselves at an amusement park, and Peter Kurd's painting of B-17s returning at twilight from a raid on Rouen. Other artists shown: Henry Billings, Floyd Davis, Edward Laning, Fletcher Martin, Barse Miller...
...Kurd's hell was his confusion of conscience and cowardice. He was too cowardly to try again with his wife or even to admit sympathy for her; too cowardly to ask her to divorce him; too cowardly to admit to himself that Constance had anything to do with his desire for divorce; too cowardly to break the news, when Barbara did divorce him, to their daughter; too cowardly, finally, to marry Constance when that became possible. In his misery he found a return to the womb-a girl named Briggsy...