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...this instance, the subject is Lyonel Feininger, a world famous and influential painter most closely associated with the Weimar Bauhaus--but you won't see any of his most important works from that period or even many of his paintings. Instead you will see cartoons, newspaper clippings and pamphlet covers dating from before, during and after his rise to prominence...
...graced the covers of many editions of Mark Twain and Louisa May Alcott novels, and almost every anthology of American literature. Or you might have seen his "Snap the Whip" in the commemorative stamp series of famous American artists. In fact, Homer is probably the most widely kown American painter, exploring American life and culture over his long career, which began after the Civil War and continued until his death...
DIED. LADY CAROLINE BLACKWOOD, 64, striking Anglo-Irish aristocrat known for her witty writing and her high-profile, high-culture marriages to painter Lucian Freud, composer Israel Citkowitz and poet--drinking buddy Robert Lowell; of cancer; in Manhattan. DIED. MCLEAN STEVENSON, 66, actor; of a heart attack; in Tarzana, California. Stevenson starred in the first three seasons of the '70s television hit M*A*S*H as Lieut. Colonel Henry Blake, a fumbling fisherman-out-of-water who ruled over the blood and irony of an Army hospital during the Korean...
...Henri and the rest had moved to New York, where an unparalleled field of subjects for painter-journalists awaited them. The artist, they all believed, must connect to the harsh facts of his society, especially in the city; then his art would draw life and staying power from its common subject matter. "His vest is slightly spotted; he is real," said Sloan approvingly of a visiting Irish painter, J.B. Yeats, father of the poet. Luks boasted that he could paint with a shoestring dipped in lard and tar. The artist, smearing oily gunk on a cloth with bristles, is immersed...
There are also four pieces by the painter Jasper Johns, dealing with angular shapes and a broad expanse of gray. Johns, who began printmaking in 1960, uses the process not to create new works, but to repeat and rework images from his paintings...