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...figure even in later life, he would daily stalk across the dunes in a 200-year-old Chinese robe, fling it off, and plunge into the surf. Occasionally, Hassam even departed from pragmatism, painting such fantasies as Adam and Eve Walking Out on Montauk Point in Early Spring. Whereas Monet in his old age quietly painted his water lilies, the American impressionist traced the rustic tranquillity of the Hamptons' shingled cottages, windmills, and seacoast up to the day he died...
Flying Flags. In the countryside, Hassam maintained that "New England churches have the same kind of beauty as Greek temples." He made the church in Old Lyme, Conn., his version of Monet's Rouen cathedral, painting it through all the o'clocks of light. Another favorite subject was the banners that billowed above city streets; he shuttled their bright colors back and forth through his works, loosening background images to mingle with the flat patterns of flags...
...kept moving, has involved herself in a dazzling variety of civic ventures. She makes her headquarters in a narrow, 71-story town house on Manhattan's fashionable Beekman Place. White, even to the furniture and the rugs on the floor, is the background -her paintings. There is a Monet a Picasso, a Lautrec. Five Matisses hang in the dining room; Van Gogh's Zouave over the living room couch faces a Renoir girl in a boat over the fireplace...
...little girl from Odessa, Edith Gregor Halpert, now 64, has done pretty well for herself. Monet once kissed her on the cheek. The great Paris dealer Ambroise Vollard whispered the secrets of his success in her ear. John...
Canvas on Polyester. In Malraux's opinion, the original mistake was that the old ceiling had not been painted by a Delacroix, Renoir, Manet, Monet, Redon or Pissarro. Since none of them are alive, he redecorated...