Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year, separate three-man juries in 22 countries (each with its own $1,000 national winner) were set up to ensure that only the best reached the finish line. Fortnight ago three top jurists (British Critic Sir Herbert Read, former Director General of French Museums Georges Salles and British Painter Morris Kestelman) were flown to Manhattan, repaired to a storage warehouse to inspect the final 114 oils and pick the grand-prize winner. "It was very quiet," chuckled Georges Salles. "We sat in three chairs like the three judges of Hell...
...Graphic Society; $50), a handsome three-volume set that includes 194 tipped-in facsimiles of the illustrations Vincent sketched into his letters, with the heedless profusion of a man who had far more confidence in his draftsmanship than in his vocabulary. No more stark and intimate account of a painter's agonies, slow development and indomitable courage was ever set down...
...surging advance at the box office, but for the stage it is a shambling step backward. It tells of a young Hong Kong prostitute (France Nuyen) debauched at 13 by an uncle but in essence still fine and pure, and of an even finer and purer young Canadian painter (William Shatner) who, though achingly tempted, resists a loving, willing Suzie in scene after scene after scene. At last, when her baby is killed, he marries...
Died. Winona Fisher, 70, daughter of 98-year-old Primitivist Painter Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, N.Y. Of Grandma Moses' ten children, two survive. Seven years ago, at 63, Winona returned from California to look after her aging mother...
Much as Maine Painter John Marin (another Stieglitz protege) chose the sky as his province, Dove made the earth and sea his domain. To get closer to both, he moved out of Manhattan, where he had been a successful illustrator, and bought a farm in Westport, Conn., began raising chickens. When that venture failed, he tried his hand at being a lobsterman. Art, he decided, should not depend so much on natural forms as on substituting equivalent images for them. He was searching for a means of expression that would not depend on representation, that "should have order, size, intensity...