Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mary Cassatt was also a pointillist painter...
...collection, Freer was inspired, in part, by Painter James McNeill Whistler, who was his fast friend. Aroused by Whistler's love for Oriental art, Freer began to decorate his home with Japanese scrolls, Korean metalworks, Chinese bronzes. He made frequent trips to the Orient, bought only the best. In 1904 he offered his whole collection to the Government with two conditions: that the Smithsonian Institution would manage it and that he could keep it until his death. He set up a trust fund to expand the Oriental collections (he prohibited expanding his American art), then gave another...
...first public one-man show, Painter Winston Churchill last week scored a smash hit. On the day the show opened in Kansas City, Mo., 5,427 people* crowded into the Nelson Gallery of Art, setting a new one-day record. By the time the Kansas City showing closes this week, some 20,000 will have seen Sir Winston's impressionist-style canvases, ranging from a wartime scene of Flanders' "Plug Street" (Ploegsteert, Belgium, as translated by World War I Tommies), painted in 1916, down to last year's landscape of the French Riviera seen from Villa...
...City's Joyce C. Hall, president of Hallmark Cards, Inc., which has used Churchill paintings for its greeting cards. Hall first approached Churchill through his actress daughter Sarah (who has been sponsored on TV by Hallmark). Churchill refused. Then Hall went to England armed with a letter from Painter Dwight Eisenhower urging Churchill to permit a U.S. exhibition. Sir Winston thought it over, sent Hall a one-word cable: "Okay...
...Young married Anita Ten Eyck O'Keeffe. sister of Painter Georgia O'Keeffe; their only daughter, Eleanor, was killed in a private airplane crash...