Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friend Cooper, "the very name of pictures produces a sadness of heart I cannot describe. Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me. I did not abandon her; she abandoned me. I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was perhaps too exalted; I may say, is too exalted. I leave it to others more worthy to fill the niches...
...studied illustration as a girl, before the beginning of the century, paused to raise a family and to farm at Chatham on Cape Cod, and then, past 50, felt compelled to paint some more. Meanwhile, her son Frederick Wight (Stallknecht is her maiden name) had become a proficient painter and art critic (TIME, Sept. 3, 1956). Young Wight encouraged her to paint, yet was amazed when she embarked on a masterly series of religious pictures drawn directly from the life and the people about...
...Painter Stallknecht depicted her fellow townspeople with almost embarrassing clarity and force-in attitudes of worship, puzzlement or indifference-around three versions of Christ in modern dress. For a while, the paintings adorned the local Congregational Church. Then, upset at seeing itself mirrored in its own house of worship, the congregation voted to return the pictures to the artist...
...reached its peak in the 6th and 5th centuries B.C. when painters achieved such individuality of style that their work, though usually unsigned, is identifiable today. The painters are usually called by an object they may have painted well, like the Pig Painter, or after a city where one of their better works may be located, like the Berlin Painter, who did the red-figure amphora (opposite). But by the beginning of the 3rd century B.C., the art that had so deftly wedded form, decoration and utility died out and has never since been revived...
...Junior Painters. A complete kit for children to repaint their own toys or wooden furniture has been put on sale by Ampruf Paint Co. of New Jersey. Kit contains three small cans of nontoxic, quick-drying paint, brush and cleaner, painter's cap and gloves, sandpaper and mixing paddle. Cost...