Word: lifesized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Rosenberg collection of Braques was also outstanding; it included a series of peaceful still lifes and such stimulating arrangements as Pink Tablecloth and Blue and Red Guitar. Matisse was represented by eight works, notably a riotously colored Odalisque with Flowers and a small, masterfully composed Open Window at Etretat...
Still-Lifes & Laundry Bills. Eddie (no one ever called him anything else) liked realism. "I am . . . a consistent and brazen supporter of what is now slightingly called representational art," he once said. But much of what he collected was considered daringly modern and experimental at the time. In last week...
After graduation from Yale, and years of failure as a painter of expressionistic still lifes and landscapes, Osborn decided to concentrate on cartoons. The war gave him his big chance. An admiral saw his broad-penned sketches and put him to work as a lieutenant doing safety pamphlets for the...
Harnett's mellow, meticulous style was not easily achieved. A poor boy, he began by selling papers, later made a living engraving silverware. He studied painting at night. Since he could not afford live models, he painted still lifes. Their extreme realism impressed the public from the first.
"Nymphs, Not Steam Engines." In 1914 at the age of 30, Segonzac finally held a one-man show. Paris was impressed (one collector so much so that he immediately bought several pictures), and Segonzac became a lion of the French art world. His friends were the cubists and Fauvists-Picasso...