Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...critics at the University yesterday mourned the death of Henri Matisse. The outstanding French painter, who began hi career as an artistic rebel and became a tradition, died late Wednesday night of a heart attack...
Frederick B. Deknatel, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts, last night called Matisse "the outstanding French painter of the 20th century. Picasso was his only rival," he said, "and Picasso was not a native Frenchman...
...York society ("Every woman should marry twice-the first time for money, the second time for love"), and Sir Lionel Phillips, a South African millionaire who would look at his own portrait and sardonically quote Whistler: "The innate vulgarity of the subject almost exceeds that of the painter...
...born in 1900 and develops into a stepchild of the century, and his twice-widowed mother, Mrs. Mountfaucon, a sweet and summery ineffectual thing who is abused by her son and adores it. Toby's career is marked by his successive failures as a speculator, opera singer, painter, milliner and playwright. During World War II, when he is laid low by a deadly disease and the family fortunes have been dissipated, Toby learns he cannot even afford to die in modish style. British Novelist Plomer is an extremely skillful and witty writer (the eyes of a spaniel...
Jordan will still be lacking the services of starting center Jan Meyer, sidelined with a back injury, but he will have 195 pounds of Art painter with which to fill in. His starting tackles, juniors Orville Tice and John Maher should leave little doubt as to who they are, and as for the guards, Captain Tim Anderson and Bill Meigs will again start. No more need be said...