Word: quilting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Remember Gertrude. At 63, Karfiol can look back on a career that has run like a single thread through the crazy-quilt pattern of modern art. The son of a Brooklyn manufacturer, he was one of the first U.S. painters to go to Paris. "They were just tearing down the exposition buildings of 1900," he says. "There were no automobiles then and you could buy a Chateaubriand for 30 centimes. I remember Leo and Gertrude Stein, Picasso, Matisse, Alfy Maurer, Weber, Pascin, and John Marin, too. I used to think Marin was an Italian model: he never said a word...