Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alumna of the Juilliard School of Music and the Ziegfeld Follies, Soprano Jane Pickens married millionaire Manhattan Investment Banker William C. Langley in 1954, gave up her TV show to juggle benefit balls and paint. Working in her Park Avenue apartment and at her Westbury, L.I., country home, she developed what one art authority called "an innocent eye." Wondered she: "Is that good or bad?" Last week, good or bad, the ex-songstress had her first one-woman show (with proceeds to cerebral-palsy research), sold 34 canvases on opening day to such prominent gallerygoers as Mrs. Laurance Rockefeller. Adele...
...become the inseparable companion of an artist named Amédée Ozenfant, and at the advanced age of 31, Jeanneret began to paint too. The two friends published a manifesto called After Cubism-"an optimistic, lyrical song on the beauty and lesson of machines, on buildings for use, and on the part played by science in an art worthy of our time." To spread their new credo of Purism, Jeanneret and Ozenfant started the magazine L'Esprit nouveau. The most important pieces were those on architecture, on which the two editors often collaborated and which Jeanneret signed...
Seeing the new façade, most architects and others who were critical of the change tend to accept it peaceably. The new marble, plus the creamy paint on the dome, undoubtedly are an improvement over the flaked-sandstone look. And the forward shift of the front is so comparatively slight that visitors hardly note a significant change in the relationship of dome and wall...
...Synge toured Ireland's "western world" for the Man chester Guardian, Yeats went along. He filled sketchbook after sketchbook with scenes of Irishmen at race tracks, country fairs and circuses, and in boats, turf bogs and pubs. Foreign artists, especially those from England, rarely were able to paint the Irish without a touch of mockery, as if they were a nation of stock buffoons. Yeats painted them as they were, and the Irish loved...
...with a cyclone." They soon did. "It didn't take me long to see that the Lark is a damn good car that has been underestimated," Egbert says-but little else about Studebaker pleased him. The walls of the begrimed plant were brightened with orange, green and white paint. Egbert, from his own poor days, has a philosophy: "You can stand there in ragged clothes-there's nothing wrong with that. But you can have them pressed, and you can be clean...