Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growth to watch is the abstract expression which derives rather heavily from nature." In so saying, Painter Carl Morris, 44, speaks with personal knowledge. His own nature-influenced abstractions rate one-man shows up and down the West Coast, and hang in nine U.S. museums. San Francisco Art Critic Alfred Frankenstein calls Morris "the best painter in Portland, Ore., and one of the best in the United States. Like some of his colleagues, Morris seems to be returning to nature with the very free technique of nonobjective painting." In Morris' one-man exhibit at Manhattan's Kraushaar...
Gallery last week, the evidence was clear that Painter Morris has pushed his technique to a new combination of recognizable objects and abstract design...
Died. Lyonel Feininger, 84, topnotch U.S. modernist painter; in Manhattan. New York-born Feininger went to Germany in 1887 to study music, turned to painting instead, exhibited in 1913 with the Blue Rider group (Klee, Kandinsky, Franz Marc), taught painting and graphic arts at Walter Gropius' Bauhaus from 1919 to 1933. Influenced by cubism, he illumined dark, glowing abstractions of sailboats (a famed one: Glorious Victory of the Sloop Maria), churches and city scenes with the placement of crystal-like shafts of light...
LINCOLN'S SONS (373 pp.)-Ruth Painter Randall-Little, Brown...
Personal Reply. In Cleveland, Mrs. Loretta Giarizzo, 70, in a $25,000 suit against House Painter Stanley Gonsior, charged that he painted her arms green when she criticized the work he was doing on her garage...