Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nowadays Paris critics rank Painter Laurencin roughly on a level with Utrillo and Vlaminck. But there was no such accolade when she first started painting half a century ago. Three times she tried to enter Paris' famed Ecole des Beaux Arts, and each time she was coldly refused. Critics called her work "decadent," "ugly," "without talent...
Marie's early work showed the influence of Toulouse-Lautrec and of her dabbling in cubism. But World War I took Marie out of her Paris circle for a while; she had married a German painter, Otto von Watgen, and when the war came along, she and her husband had to leave France. They lived in Spain until 1918; then Marie got a divorce and went back to Paris...
Gardner Cox, 46, is a talented Massachusetts painter with a happy outlook and a common-sensical approach to art that New Englanders can admire. To earn a living, he paints commission portraits of famous figures and Boston's citizens; the rest of his time he spends experimenting with abstractions and searching for new ways to express himself. At Cape Cod's new Mayo Hill Galleries last week, people got a chance to see how the portraiture and experiments had turned...
Married. Marc Chagall, 63, Russian-born expressionist painter, and Mme. Valentine Brodski, fortyish, who looks (said Chagall's daughter) as though "she stepped out of one of father's paintings"; both for the second time; in Clairefontaine, France...
...purchase, and since then she has found it hard to supply the de. mand. The Paul Mellons have 14 of her pictures, including an $8,000 series of wall paintings, which show the four seasons in full bloom at their Upperville, Va. farm. The Mellons are especially taken by Painter Hewes's gift for catching the individual personalities of their favorite cats, dogs, horses and cows...