Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Secretary of State, the unveiling was "one of my most fulfilling moments. Until they do Mount Rushmore." Artist Wills, too, felt fulfilled. Unlike Cox, who was paid only $1,500 in expenses for his rejected picture, Wills will collect a fee of $10,500. He will be the last painter to be so lucky. Jimmy Carter has requested that in the future, all official portraits be color photographs...
...three years later to settle in Milwaukee. As a teenager, Golda was already interested in politics, encouraged by the example of her elder sister Sheyna. Intent on becoming a schoolteacher, Golda ran away from home to live with her sister in Denver. There she married a mild, intellectual sign painter, Morris Myerson, whom she argued into emigrating to Palestine in 1921. They lived for two years in a kibbutz (where Golda promptly took over and reorganized the communal kitchen), then moved to Tel Aviv and later Jerusalem, where their two children, Menachem and Sarah, were born. But she soon realized...
...month period worked as a ranch hand roping horses in Oregon. He joined Cannon Electric Co. of Los Angeles as a salesman, and in three years worked up to international vice president. Meanwhile, he became a U.S. citizen and married Norma Langstaff, a Los Angeles abstract painter who has had several art shows. In 1963, ITT acquired Cannon and shortly thereafter ordered Bergerac back to Europe to straighten out a small group of companies that were losing money...
DIED. Otto Kallir, 84, Austrian-born art dealer who introduced and promoted the famed American primitive painter known as Grandma Moses; in New York City. A Viennese art merchant who fled his country after the Nazi invasion, Kallir opened a gallery in New York in 1939 specializing in German and Austrian expressionism. He became best known, however, for presenting the works of Anna Mary Robertson Moses, the Hoosick Falls, N.Y., resident who did not start painting seriously until age 76. "I may be prejudiced," Kallir once said of his client, who died at age 101 in 1961, "but . . . history will...
...exerted a vast influence on the growth of a specifically surrealist art. Max Ernst, René Magritte and Salvador Dali all paid homage to the liberating power of early De Chirico. He seemed to have made the actions of the dreaming mind more accessible, vivid and poignant than any other painter. "If a work of art is to be truly immortal," he explained, "it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without any sign of common sense or logic. In this way the work will draw nearer to dream and to the mind of a child." The tilted...