Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such salty, down-to-earth treatment of an esoteric surgical specialty could have come only from New Zealand-born Sir Harold Delf Gillies, 74, onetime champion golfer, master of the fly rod, amateur painter and undisputed father of modern plastic surgery in Britain. As co-author of The Principles and Art of Plastic Surgery (Little, Brown; $35), he enlisted the University of Miami's David Ralph Millard Jr., 37, a kindred spirit and former pupil. Utterly different from anything else in the field, their work is neither a set text nor a formal reference book, but a remarkable grafting...
...receive the convention's airlift tour, the four cities' museums, galleries, private homes and department stores have turned themselves into showcases for art, displaying everything from such private collections as Social Leader Ima Hogg's Colonial Americans to a sampling of just about every living Texas painter and sculptor. But the standout exhibit is the handsome tribute, co-sponsored by Houston's Museum of Fine Arts and Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum, to France's three Du-champ brothers, whose talent and eccentricities make the family one of the oddest phenomenons of 20th century...
...famed Nude Descending a Staircase, the hit of Manhattan's 1913 Armory Show, all three brothers started out dead serious about their art, and it was art that became their common bond. Recalls Marcel: "We had always in our head the famous adage, 'stupid as a painter.' We tried to introduce some brains into the problem...
...Gaston Is No Name." Trailbreaker for the brothers, and the one who in the end has had the longest sustained achievement, is the eldest, christened Gaston, but who quickly changed his name to the more romantic Jacques Villon ("Gaston is no name for anyone, let alone a painter,'' says Marcel). Sobersided and nicknamed "Grandpa" by the family, Jacques Villon has spent a lifetime fishing in the still, deep pools of his own sensibility...
Leader of the calligraphists (a style that includes U.S. Painter Mark Tobey's famed "white writing" and the late Jackson Pollock's lassolike drip whirls) is German-born, French-naturalized Hans Hartung. Now considered a Frenchman by the French, who last November bought out his first one-man show in nine years at prices ranging from $4,000 to $6,000, and a German by the Germans, who are honoring his works with a ten-month-long museum tour, Hartung, at 52, is being hailed by critics as "one of the prophets of modern art" (in Paris...