Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vibrant, unassuming Alice is the daughter of Chicago Painter Ivan Albright and Josephine Medill Patterson, youngest daughter of the late Captain Joe Patterson, founder of the New York Daily News. Alice's Aunt Alicia Patterson, 52 (TIME Cover, Sept. 13, 1954), is 'the editor and publisher of Long Island's moneymaking, fast-growing tabloid Newsday (circ. 288,483). It is to Alice and her brother Joe, 21, a reporter on the Chicago Sun-Times, that Aunt Alicia may hand down important interests in Newsday, the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune...
...most indefatigable sponsors of the revival is Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts Director Anna Olmsted, who launched a series of national ceramic shows in 1932, this year invited entries from ten European countries, Canada and Hawaii. Some $3,200 in prizes was awarded by a jury headed by Painter-Ceramist Henry Varnum Poor, generally considered dean of modern U.S. potters. The show will travel to five more U.S. cities in the next year, last week was on view at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...
...will do the actual shooting, the cards are stacked by drunken Eduardo and tough-talking little Luis so that David, the kindest and weakest of the bunch, has to do the dirty work. The deed-getaway car and all-is planned coldly by Agustin, a young painter for whom art is not enough. The crime fails not because his plan is faulty but because David cannot pull the trigger as he faces the easy victim.* The gang splits. Before novel's end, a murder does take place, one almost as pointless as the planned killing would have been...
There are probably almost as many reasons for collecting works of art as there are for producing them in the first place. To the painter, the mind of the patron is something of a mystery. To the father of the work, its raison-d'etre is clear and inevitable. But those who consider themselves amateurs, if not connoisseurs, more often than not have other ideas. The most puissant dealers have proven to be agile psychologists, time and time again...
...Glazanov, the situation seems hopeless. Recently he wrote an American friend: "I hope that only you will recognize American people with my art. It is very important for a painter. If it is possible to print it as a book, please, write me which and how many fotografyes you need." Attached to this letter was a warning from the American Embassy: any further correspondence could mean trouble for Glazanov...