Word: leger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike the other cubist greats - Picasso, Braque, and the late Fernand Leger - who had to unlearn their earlier styles, young Juan Gris (pronounced Greece) had had only a rudimentary training in Madrid when he moved into the Rue Ravignan in 1906, to be near Picasso. In on cubism from its birth, Gris developed his own style naturally on cubist tenets...
...than Jacques Barzun, and he got to his present position by his own intellectual route. The son of the literary scholar, Henri Martin Barzun, he spent his boyhood among some of the foremost artists around Paris. Novelists Jules Romains and Georges Duhamel were constant visitors, so were Artists Fernand Leger, Albert Gleizes and Marcel Duchamp. "It was," says Barzun, "a seedbed of modernism. Apollinaire dandled me on his knee. Marie Laurencin did a sketch...
...reflect the taste of the museum's founders, Singer Sewing Machine Heir Robert Sterling Clark, 79, and his French-born wife Francine. Seven years ago the publicity-shy Clarks, best known for the success of their racing silks (including wins in both Britain's Derby and St. Leger with Never Say Die in 1954), started casting about for a place to house their huge art collection. They settled on a 90-acre hilltop lot in the quiet college community of Williamstown, because a) it was far removed from urban centers which might be atomic-bomb targets...
With his brother James Johnson Sweeney, former head of the Museum of Modern Art, Sweeney developed an early liking for painting. While he owns works by Bracque, Picasso, Leger, and Gris, he protests, in his self-effacing manner, that "I know nothing about aesthetics as a professional discipline or as a philosophical study. But the experience," he continues, "of making a judgment and enjoying a painting in the Fogg--or reading a poem--has been a vital part of my education...
...Peter Townsend, the royal family did its best to see that there was little to talk about. Captain Townsend returned to Belgium after a three-day visit to England without so much as a glimpse of his princess: neither he nor Margaret attended last week's classic St. Leger horse race at which it was hoped they might meet and exchange, at the very least, a significant look. The Court Calendar noted without comment the visit to Balmoral Castle of Britain's Attorney General, which led the Associated Press into excited speculation that perhaps he and the Queen...