Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Worcester fumbled on the next play from scrimmage, with five freshmen falling around the ball on the 10. Lewis, on second down fought his way to the three, and on the first play of the fourth quarter, fullback Art Painter plunged over...
...lovers in Toronto last week got one of the world's rare good looks at the work of a ranking woman painter of the 19th century. Her name was Berthe Morisot, and she lived from 1841 to 1895 at the height of French impressionism, yet today only a few know her name. She held but one big exhibit during her lifetime; ever since, most of her works have been out of sight. Toronto's Art Gallery spent a year negotiating with her daughter in Paris, finally managed to borrow 30 paintings on condition that the gallery would insure...
...named Edouard Manet, and the meeting colored her whole life. She became more serious about art, wrote Manet long, involved letters on what she had learned from Corot, persuaded him to leave his dim studio to paint bright countrysides and farms. In Paris, she often posed for the young painter, developed a womanly jealousy when he sometimes used another model. Berthe never admitted anything more than friendship for Manet; he was a married man. But she stayed close by, eventually married his brother Eugene...
...Berthe never got around to holding a solo show of her own paintings. But in 1892, after her husband died, Berthe left Paris for a few months to paint, then returned for her first one-man show. Paris critics nodded approval, but few people cheered a woman painter in those days. She never gave them another chance. Two years later, at the age of 54, Berthe Morisot sickened and died; her will named Auguste Renoir guardian of her 16-year-old daughter Julie...
Without her family's knowledge, Crowley married Rose Kelly, sister of Painter Sir Gerald Kelly. They spent their honeymoon in Cairo, where they drove through the streets dressed in silks, diamonds and cloth of gold, and in Ceylon, where, for a while, Rose thought she was a flying bat and was found by her admiring husband hanging from a beam, naked, upside down and unhurt...