Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of Chicago one day last week, a pink-cheeked, wispy-haired little man mounted the raised platform, pushed his horn-rimmed glasses up on to his forehead and began to speak. He was not comfortable. "I do not feel at ease when I have to speak," said Painter Marc Chagall. "My language...
Died. Eugene Higgins, 83, American painter and etcher, artistic descendant of France's 19th century Romantic Jean Francois Millet; after long illness; in Manhattan. Missouri-born Gene Higgins put in seven bohemian years in Paris, returned to the U.S. in 1904, spent the rest of his life painting slum figures, tramps, refugees -mostly in and around New York City...
Writers of doctoral dissertations ransack mightily obscure quarries for old stones to be turned. New-fledged Paris Pathologist Tony-Michel Torrilhon, who did his stone-turning in Europe's art libraries, last week turned in a thesis on the maimed, ailing creatures of the great, earthy 16th century painter, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Torrilhon's hypothesis: in painting after painting, Bruegel reproduced the maladies of his Low Country peasants with a diagnostician's keen...
...Among them: Harry S. Truman, who, when asked if he thought Churchill is as great a painter as a statesman, snapped: "Impossible. He would have to be a Rembrandt...
Died. Jan Muller, 35, German-born painter who came to the U.S. in 1941, rebelled against the "New York School" ("Abstract art is too esoteric"), was one of the best semi-traditionalists; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...