Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much when I am that'age." When he was only 21, he submitted Manege de Cochons (a twirling semi-abstract with pigs racing about and black-stockinged legs and top-hatted figures joining in the carrousel of life) to the 1906 Salon d'Automne. It so enraged Painter Georges Rouault, a member of the jury, that he threw it to the floor and trampled it to shreds. After that, Delaunay moved into his fruitful "destructive" period...
Last week, 16 years after his death, tribute was being paid to Painter Delaunay. Paris' National Museum of Modern Art was in the midst of a major, summer-long retrospective show of almost 200 of his oils, watercolors, drawings, lithographs. It was plain that Delaunay never realized his youthful ambition of reaching Picasso's heights, but equally plain that he had said enough to make a historical contribution to modern...
...English Painter Arthur Fretwell, 38, who makes a living as the art master of the church school at Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, received an interesting letter last January. It came from Nathaniel Montague. Lane, 68, the diocesan architect who designed the Anglican Church of Saint Mary the Virgin in the nearby coal-mining town of Mansfield. Architect Lane, with only limited funds, wanted to know if Fretwell would like to paint five pictures of incidents from the Virgin Mary's life for the church's gallery. There was only one condition: "The more controversial the panels are, the better...
...first attempt to honor the cowboy painter came a cropper in 1931 when his widow telegraphed Montana's governor that the winning model of the seven submitted in a competition for a statue was "unlike the real Charlie Russell." World War II halted a second effort. Meantime, Charlie's friends and admirers -including just about every hard-rock miner, drive-in carhop and state legislator in the Treasure State-dug into their jeans for $75,000 to build a museum in Great Falls to house his works, anted up again to buy a collection of Russell paintings valued...
...wife, Californian Jane Foster, the daughter of the retired medical director of the Cutter Laboratories, was a graduate of Mills College ('35), became an abstract painter of sorts, joined the Communist Party in 1938, married a Dutch foreign service officer and lived in the Dutch East Indies. Where or how Jane Foster lost her first husband is a mystery, but she met and married Zlatovski in Washington, D.C. in 1943, then unaccountably remarried him three years later...