Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great West, full of live-looking cowboys, Indians and galloping horses. He sold them for $5, or even less, until he learned that some people would pay a lot more. He found this out when a man from Boston asked the price of two paintings. As Cowboy-Painter Russell told it later: "He was a plumb stranger ... so I said $50. And I'm a common liar if the fellow didn't dig out $100 and hand 'em over. He thought I meant $50 apiece . . . I didn't say a word. I just bought the fellow...
Married. Pamela Gordon, 34, painter daughter of the late Gertrude Lawrence; and Robert Clatworthy, 24, British sculptor; she for the second time, he for the first; in a civil ceremony (the bride wore her mother's "favorite dress"); in London...
Last week Beverly Pepper showed what she had made of the doctor's advice: she had 1) got married, and 2) quit advertising and become a painter. At her first one-woman show at Rome's important Zodiaco Gallery, Roman art lovers quickly took to Beverly's relaxed, motherly views of ordinary people-churchgoing Negroes in Georgia, earthy peasants in France, broad-hipped laundry women in Italy. The canvases were done with easy grace and warm understanding of the hardships in everyday life. Wrote Virgilio Guzzi in Il Tempo: "At times melancholy, at times naive, the artist...
Senora de Orozco, widow of the late Mexican painter Jose Clemente Orozco, opened an exhibition containing over 200 of the noted artist's works yesterday at the Fogg Museum...
...thought, Ike still had a lot to learn. Said one: "It is more draftsmanship than art. The perspective in form is fair. The color is not so good, and-most disappointing-there is no luminosity in the painting. But there is a lot of method, and for a Sunday painter Eisenhower is very serious...