Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decided to recoup the family honor. On the three-to four-hour, 363-question test given to would-be Twenty One contestants, Vivienne scored third highest in the show's history-just ahead of John Kieran Jr. and just behind Van Doren (her husband was seventh). A sometime painter, pianist and Double-Crostics fan, she has a bachelor's degree (cum laude) from Queens College. New York, an M.A. and LL.B. from Columbia, has served as a legal assistant to Chief Justice Arthur Vanderbilt of the New Jersey Supreme Court. With Husband Victor, Vivienne lives...
...19th century, scholars pieced together enough to establish that La Tour had been a famous painter in his day. Not until 1915 were the first two of his works identified by Kaiser Friedrich Museum Director Hermann Voss. Since then, scholars have winnowed through works variously attributed to such Spanish masters as Zurbaran, Velasquez, Ribera and Murillo, have now identified more than 25 of them as La Tours. His matching portraits, Peasant Man and Peasant Woman were presented by Art Patron Roscoe Oakes to San Francisco's De Young Museum, where they will be unveiled this week. Major works...
...Tour's style, De Young Director Walter Heil says: "It is almost an abstract realism." Wrote French Critic Andreé Malraux: "No other painter, not even Rembrandt, can so well suggest that vast, elemental stillness; La Tour alone is the interpreter of the serene that dwells in the heart of darkness...
...oldest abstractionists going, with an established prewar-Paris reputation. In the '30s he rated one-man shows, shared gallery space in group shows with such now famous moderns as Alberto Giacometti, Arp, Hans Hartung and Kandinsky. Gertrude Stein, who had taken a shine to the strapping, red-haired painter from Pendleton, Ore., announced in Everybody's Autobiography: "He is the only American painter foreign painters in Paris consider as a painter and whose painting interests them. He is young yet and might only perhaps nobody can do that thing called abstract painting...
...Little Caesar), when his Hollywood salary jumped from $1,000 to $7,000 a week. Among his prize canvases were Corot's L'ltalienne, Ceézanne's The Black Clock, and masterpieces by Van Gogh, Degas, Matisse, Renoir, Gauguin, and almost every other major French painter of the past half-century. When the collection became notable, Robinson opened his Hollywood home to the public. In recent years it was also exhibited around the country at some of the nation's best museums...