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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...82nd birthday, Painter Henri Matisse received an abstract plaudit from Painter Pablo Picasso, who wrote: "No painter has ever tickled painting to such bursts of laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: On the Job | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

Paris Poet Blaise Cendrars used to baffle the bourgeois, and build up his painter friends, by writing such wild lines as these (about Marc Chagall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bourgeois Heartbreak | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

Since then, Emma Bellows has lived on in the small Manhattan house where her husband had his studio. She has spent her time raising their two daughters, managing the fat parcel of canvases Painter Bellows left behind ("That's a full-time job, choosing varnishes, choosing frames"). By carefully supervised sales to important U.S. museums and collections, she has supported herself, helped establish her husband as one of America's favorite painters. "I won't let just anybody buy George's paintings," she says. "I want them placed where they can be seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painter & Wife | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

...Landscapes. These have the advantage of being suitable for kitchens, and of staying sunny on the darkest days. The Good Old Days is a first try at calendar art by a Hollywood scene painter named Paul Detlefsen. It owes something to Currier & Ives, and depends a good deal on memories to invest its neat detail with a breath of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: EVERYDAY PICTURES FOR MILLIONS | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

Just one topflight modern painter has devoted his art to the service of religion. Georges Rouault, 80, is both a fervent Roman Catholic and a brilliant expressionist. "My only ambition," he once said, "is to be able some day to paint a Christ so moving that those who see Him will be converted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Modern with a Message | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

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