Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Loomis School in Windsor, Conn., Eliot learned to draw and paint, trying style after style. At Black Mountain College he was influenced by Abstractionist Josef Albers; later, at the Boston Museum School, he turned more conservative. At 21, after
Indeed, said Jesuit John Courtney Murray, "the first church-related school [founded by Origen in the 3rd century] came into being in answer to an inner need of the human spirit as it was caught in the clashing encounter between Christianity and all the knowledge symbolized by the Alexandrian Museum. This encounter is permanently joined, for 'the Museum' is a permanent institution, and so too is the Church . . . What the human spirit endowed with Christian faith permanently needs is that these two knowledges should be related in a universe of intellectual order . . . The Christian school therefore undertakes...
...laid on with a realistic brush. Now the University of Texas is publishing an annual full-color portfolio of the works of artists portraying the Southwest. Its first choice, picked by a blue-ribbon committee of leading Texas art patrons advised by the state's most prominent art-museum directors: stocky, sobersided Everett Spruce...
...accolade was not his first. Before being selected over all regional competitors, including Dallas' Otis Dozier (TIME, Dec. 17), Painter Spruce had won recognition nationally (the Scheidt Memorial Prize, a Worcester Art Museum prize) and internationally in 1948 with the first prize at an exhibition of American paintings in Brussels...
...oils. At 18 he went to the Dallas Art Institute on a scholarship. There he studied life drawing and painting, made ends meet by doubling as school janitor and fabricator of canvases and panels that the school sold to its students. Eventually he became assistant director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, now teaches at the University of Texas in Austin. At any time he is apt to load his family into a battered station wagon with palette and easel and take to the hills or the canyons of the Big Bend. A prolific painter, Spruce takes only...