Word: painter
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Nude With Violin (by Noel Coward) is, more accurately, Noel with one string to his bow. The play concerns a just-dead and extremely famous painter who, it turns out, had never painted a single one of his pictures. As the painter's cheeky, in-on-the-swindle valet. Coward buzzes about while the dead man's family try to hush things up and cope with the actual painter-and potential blackmailer. Then it turns out that there was also a second painter. And, for that matter, a third-and a fourth. Though Coward has carefully varied...
Buying together and separately, Patron Knox and Director Smith have preferred the-quick to the dead, have made some startling acquisitions. Examples: ¶ Composition in White (opposite), by Jean-Paul Riopelle, 34, one of Canada's two leading abstract painters. In Paris, where Riopelle now works, his larger canvases bring as high as $6,000. Working in intense bursts of creative activity (22 paintings last month) and laying on paint with meticulous palette-knife strokes, Riopelle is a moody painter. His Composition in White grew out of a trip to Austria. "The snowcapped Austrian mountains reminded me of Canada...
Time was when fathers often passed the craft of painting on to their children, and sometimes created artistic dynasties of the first order. Some of the greatest painters of the Renaissance grew great at home. The practice never took hold in the rough and tumble of American life, though Revolutionary War Hero Charles Willson Peale did raise two painting sons, one of whom, first-named Raphaelle, surpassed the father. But the 20th century does offer an outstanding example of an American artist following in his father's footsteps. The one is Andrew Wyeth (TIME...
Wyeth was a wildly uneven painter, swayed and disheveled by every wind that blew. His work shows every influence he met, from the meticulous refinement of his teacher Howard Pyle to the dashing violence of Frederic Remington, from turn-of-the-century impressionism to strict realism of the sort practiced by his son. His "easel pictures"-landscapes and figure pieces done for pleasure between illustrating assignments-were his worst. As some men can dance well only to brilliant music, Wyeth painted at his best only when inspired by a timeless tale...
Broadway in Paris. Marcia will find that another U.S. woman painter has already been in Paris. Sylvia Carewe, the 5 ft.-tall, 43-year-old wife of Carter's Little Liver Pills Executive Marvin Small, had a solo show at the Left Bank gallery of Katia Granoff last week and received critics' salutes rarely fired off for visiting talents. She also sold ten of her 22 canvases at prices ranging from $500 to $1,500. After 14 years of painting, nine of regular showing from Ball State Teachers College in Muncie, Ind. to Manhattan's Whitney Museum...