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...talent grew, until the time came when the great illustrator himself was being introduced as "Andrew Wyeth's father." Today, Wyeth commands the highest prices* of any living U.S. artist, but he feels that he may some day repeat his father's experience. His only pupil is his sensitive 16-year-old son Jamie, and Wyeth wonders whether the day may come when he will be introduced as "James Wyeth's father...
...duke scored a coup by buying more than 200 drawings from the collection of Nicolaes Flinck, the son of a Rembrandt pupil. He also beat out Louis XIV in purchasing a volume of drawings that the French Landscape Painter Claude Lorrain had done as a record of his own paintings...
...recipient of all these honors had just won the first Van Cliburn International Piano competition, and with it the largest cash prize-$10,000-ever given a performing artist in the U.S. Votapek, a pupil of Cliburn's teacher Rosina Lhevinne, had to beat out 45 contestants from 16 nations, including two fine Soviet pianists who finished second and third. A softspoken, shy young man, he played the Prokofiev Third Piano Concerto and the first movement of the Beethoven Fourth, singing his way into their reflective passages and kindling fire from their climaxes with an ease and fluidity that...
...book. But it is, or is claimed to be, a child's book. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, a sheaf of very severe, very funny essays about adult nonsense, shows the world of Louisville as it was seen in 1904 by ten-year-old Virginia Cary Hudson, then a pupil in an Episcopal boarding school. Its publishers say, word of honor, that it is Virginia's work, discovered decades later in an attic trunk by her daughter. The story is that the little Virginia stammered, and her English teacher allowed her to write out her assignments...
Every Shadow a Dragon. Until he began winning praise and prizes a few years ago, Gilles was one of the most chronically unsuccessful painters of his generation -and also one of the most enigmatic. He had been a favorite pupil of Lyonel Feininger at the Bauhaus, yet he showed no trace of Feininger's misty geometry. As a colorist, Gilles was a descendant of the expressionists; he also borrowed from Klee, Miró, Munch, and even Picasso...