Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moment for sentiment came with Lot 77, the debut on the block of that late, great Sunday painter Sir Winston Churchill. The painting, a pleasant 1938 canal scene that had been owned by Churchill's former son-in-law, British Comedian Vic Oliver, bravely bubbled up to $26,000. Its new proud possessor is Joyce Hall of Hallmark greeting cards, who intends to exhibit the oil at the New York World Fair...
...harm's way. The Rao briskly institutes a private mutiny of his own. He transforms the matrons into concubines, and the proper Victorians are soon fighting to embrace a fate worse than death. The romantic and violent 19th century is Author Lesley Blanch's special province. Painter, stage designer, film critic and ex-wife of Novelist Romain Gary, she has written several skillful biographies of the period (The Wilder Shores of Love, The Sabres of Paradise). In this book, her first novel, she proves herself a comic writer with a range of wit that can make her readers...
...when Gallery Owner Robert Graham was at a loss for a way to advertise. To signal shows, he hit on having each artist design his own flag. His idea was so successful that other galleries followed suit, and Graham, along with Barbara Kulicke, wife of a New York painter and framemaker, founded the Betsy Ross Flag & Banner Co. Before long, 35 artists had made nylon flags to fly outdoors and felt banners to hang indoors like tapestries. So far, shows of their work have traveled to 30 U.S. museums and galleries. Like graphics, the banners are signed and numbered...
Artists seem to enjoy making flags. Says Irving Kriesberg, 46, painter of limerick nonsense images: "It is like lithography-an image is reproduced economically, yet retains the force of originality." Pop Painter Marjorie Strider, 33, used unemotional sewing and deliberate placement of swatches to show a gap-jawed vampire starlet. Richard Lindner blended silk, satin, and leather to stitch together a sensual mix of sultriness and toughness in his portrait of a fiery sorcerer. Larry Rivers spent as much time reproducing his Dutch Masters on a banner as he did painting it. Cheerful, colorful, and casually breezy, they can make...
...permanent value there is to just rubbing shoulders with great names," says Chicago English Chairman Gwin J. Kolb. Ivy League and West Coast schools tend to use the artist in informal seminars, then let him work while students kibitz or wait to nail him at coffee breaks. At Wisconsin, Painter Aaron Bohrod avoids talks, just keeps his studio open. "Fascinating verbalists may not lead you to the understanding that a shrug of the shoulders can," he says. Many colleges use performing artists primarily to direct student productions in drama, music, the dance...