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...nothing to do with it, but the 13 pictures he produced for Swan Lake are stylistically among the most orthodox of his career. They could trace their lineage to the Scribner's children's classics of half a century ago, when the pictures of nonpareils like N.C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish graced the tissue-covered plates. Still, Van Allsburg retains his special dream aura in the brooding shadows in which the swans float, in the surprising sight of pigs being led through the door of a formal bedroom, in the everyday surrealism of a man absorbed in reading while standing...
Bidding began on Friday for Warhol's collection of more than 75 paintings and drawings, ranging from old masters through French impressionists to Maxfield Parrish and Norman Rockwell (represented by a portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy). A pair of 7 1/2-ft. portraits of Britain's George III and his consort Queen Charlotte went for $40,700. Still higher prices were expected this week in the sale of Warhol's modern and contemporary art acquisitions, although aside from several Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtensteins, Robert Rauschenbergs and the like, experts found this part of his collection far less impressive than might have been...
...what is, after all, a kind of fairy-tale church. The picturesque asymmetry, however, saves the palace from seeming grave. "Ours was not a modernist solution," said Karl Ermanis, the palace's chief architect, as if there were any doubts. The designers borrowed from King Ludwig II, Piranesi, Gaudi, Maxfield Parrish and Walt Disney. There are some fetching small touches: off to one side is an ersatz ice ruin and a skull-shaped ice cave...
...Sylvia Maxfield, a fifth-year graduate student, was once a student of Dominguez. She says she filed a sexual misconduct complaint against him, charging that he had both sexually harassed her and tried to pit her against the junior professor whose sexual harassment complaint resulted in Dominguez's discipline. Harvard as a matter of policy does not discuss specific cases or their settlements (Harvard's announcement of the Hibbs resignation was an extraordinary exception...
...University, Maxfield says, assured her that "Dominguez would never have anything to do with me again" and that she could still get her Ph.D. without any contact with the professor. Although Maxfield remains technically enrolled at Harvard, she is writing her dissertation at the University of San Diego...