Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your March 1 Art section you referred to a painting of a woman's head "attributed to Joshua Reynolds . . . Former Gallery Director Alvan Eastman thinks the actual painter was one Angelica Kauffmann." This is a very casual way of dismissing one of the only two women artists ever to become R.A.S. Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807), though she may be thought to have had some shallowness of character, had depth in her work, and her great application to her craft was truly remarkable . . . There are . . . points of similarity in the styles of Reynolds and Kauffmann, who were very close friends...
...Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland. But it was not until the book was ready for the presses that Photographer Man got his contribution from Pablo Picasso. This week the book (Eight European Artists, Heinemann, Ltd., London) was out with a message for posterity from the world's greatest painter. The message: "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ...
...Painter John Decker may score in Fowler's book for his good cooking, but on the day I visited his studio he had an open can of some foodstuff . . . the blue and white label read "Fix FOR HUMAN USE." It was issued by the WPA. The dark walls of Decker's depressing menage were covered with "brown-sauce" paintings-one of which was Queen Victoria with a W. C. Fields head [see cut]. Another, after Da Vinci, had Fanny Brice's face...
Hasegawa has at times been as withdrawn from reality in life as in the strange shapes and forms of his art. He studied at Tokyo University, got interested in Sesshu. the great 15th century Japanese Buddhist painter, and this led him to Zen Buddhist monasteries, where he used to sit for hours under the supervision of monks, trying to learn to exclude all thought from his mind, submerge himself in peaceful oblivion. In the early '30s he went to Europe, where he came under the influence of Le Corbusier, Mondrian, Arp and Alexander Calder. Says...
...Also a painter under the name Eric Johns...