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Born in Rochester in 1912, "Dick" Harari had "a routine academic training" there and later a modern schooling under Fernand Léger and Marcel Gromaire in Paris. Back in the U.S. he did both realistic landscapes and abstract murals for the WPA, exhibited fool-the-eye still lifes at...
A Little, Dubious. Matthew Smith, who lost his two sons in the R.A.F. in World War II, is living alone these days in a tiny flat in grubby Chelsea. The 61 bright watercolors and drawings of still lifes, models and landscapes, which make up the bulk of his current show...
Last week Munich saw the first comprehensive show of new German art since the war. Held in Hitler's onetime headquarters, the massive FÜhrerbauhaus, it contained not a single blond Balder, buxom BrÜnnhilde or veiled Valhalla of the sort Hitler had liked to see. There...
Painter Georges Braque cast a narrowly appraising eye at five still-lifes on the wall of a Paris gallery last week. The colors and surface textures of all five pictures were as alike as peas in a pod; the only apparent thing that distinguished the four reproductions from Braque'...
The least of his new pictures seemed to radiate light. There were glowing little pointings labeled Lemons and Oranges, Radishes, or just plain Fruit, but never "Still Life." Marchand hates the term nature morte, never uses it. "Nature," he says, "is never dead." His paintings of bulls silhouetted against hot...