Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...section you discuss the paintings of Abstract Expressionist Alfonso Ossorio. In the Aug. 25 issue you reproduce two portraits: Goya's Don Vicente Osorio, a young Spanish prince, and Millais' Cherry Ripe, a girl of four who is today Signora Edie Ossorio, aged 84. Their names are almost identical. Are they related...
...Publishing Co. (TIME, Feb. 17), which overhauled the little-known historical quarterly, American Heritage, in 1954. saw it soar as a bright new bimonthly to a circulation of more than 300,000. Unlike Heritage, which was begun on an initial investment of $65,000, Horizon blossomed forth after a ripe overture of expensive nourishes and drum pounding...
...commissioned Painter John Everett Millais to do a portrait of Edie in that same costume. Thomas paid a fancy $5,000, but used the finished canvas in the Graphic, made 600,000 color reproductions and sold them profitably across the Empire. A print of the portrait, known as Cherry Ripe because Edie was perched atop two sacks of cherries, became a sentimental adornment in every Victorian and Edwardian nursery...
...decades that passed, the whereabouts of Model Edie turned into a mystery. One day a fortnight ago, a young man visited London's Royal Academy of Arts, noticed Millais' Cherry Ripe on exhibition in the collection of the late South African mine owner, Sir Joseph B. Robinson. Thomas sold the portrait to Robinson 60 years ago, and it had been stored with the collection since 1910. The visitor strolled up to a gallery assistant, remarked that the model was his grandmother, and that she would soon come in to see the painting...
...sittings at Millais' studio," said Wheeler. "She recalls being given chocolates as a reward for sitting still, recollects playing around a fountain in Millais' garden with his children. But she threw up her hands in horror when we suggested she be photographed with Cherry Ripe. She was admirably adamant...