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Walter Murch is a man who loves to work at night, painting floodlit still lifes in a shadowy studio. "Sometimes I'll knock off to raid the icebox," he says, "but when I'm working I'm liable to forget the time altogether. Between the emotional kick...
An affable, heavyset man of 41, Murch paints covers for FORTUNE and occasional portraits for friends, but his heart is in his still lifes. He once had a daytime studio, "but I did no work in it. There seemed to be a lot of light . . ." Nowadays he works only at...
When he chooses, Ben Nicholson paints charming and recognizable still lifes and landscapes. He doesn't always choose. He also happens to be Britain's most revered abstractionist. For conservatives, there's the rub. In a book on Nicholson newly published in England, Art Critic Herbert Read...
First prizewinner was Giorgio Morandi, a mild modern who has become, at 58, Italy's favorite artist. Morandi's splendid reputation might be difficult for some exhibition visitors to grasp. It is built on his collection of used bottles, which he arranges in table-top still lifes and...
As one means of control, Nash used to impose geometrical patterns on his landscapes and still lifes, reshaping hills, trees and flower pots to suit his highly refined taste. The results looked arbitrarily prettified, at first, but in spite of that (or perhaps because of it) they sold.