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...ways. So a house wife might think of a table as something more or less utilitarian. A carpenter would notice how It is made and from what quality of wood. A poet-a bad one-will imagine everyone sitting round the hearth, and so forth. But for a painter it will be, quite simply, a collection of flat colored shapes." Such statements have since become the cliches of every art school, and Gris was by no means the first to utter them; his ideas, in this respect, derive from earlier French art theorists like Maurice Denis. But Gris held...
Small Potatoes. Then it was the turn of Maurice Stans. Wearing a tiny American flag in his lapel, Stans told of his boyhood in Shakopee, Minn., where his father had been a struggling house painter and the family did not have indoor plumbing. Stans recalled that he had slept under the rafters on the unfinished second floor of the house and "when it was below zero outside, it was below zero inside." Stans went on to become a millionaire accountant and Nixon's chief fund raiser; in 1972 alone, he added $55 million to the President's campaign...
...Appropriately, it was in Paris that Widower Thomas Jefferson, 42, enjoyed his flashiest illicit idyl. As a trade negotiator for George Washington, and later Benjamin Franklin's successor as Minister to France, the lanky Virginian fell in love with Maria Cosway, a capricious Englishwoman married to an obnoxious painter and court toady in London...
...intimate, lavishly appointed house with a decor of powder blue (Mrs. Harkness's favorite color), black marble floors, lots of mirrors, chandeliers and easily filchable gold-plated faucets in the rest rooms. The disconcertingly dominant feature of the theater, alas, is a campy, Daliesque mural by Spanish Painter Enrique Senis-Oliver called Homage to Terpsichore, which all but swallows the proscenium. Immortalized in an agonized, thrusting morass of naked dancers is a chastely gowned portrait of Mrs. Harkness, making obeisance to the goddess of dance. The painting almost glows in the dark, which means that the audience can still...
...fairly tame fashion, doing all sorts of things that proper Bostonian ladies never did. She was born in New York--perhaps her worst offense. She wore diamonds in her hair. She had an affair with an incipiently bad novelist. She wore French dresses, she collected rubies. She let the painter John Singer Sargent chase her all over the gym at Groton, showed up at the Church of the Advent one Lenten Sunday to scrub the steps as penance for what followed...