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On a clear day in 1956, Jack Youngerman, a Kentucky-born painter, then 30, returned to the U.S. after nine years in Paris. As his ship entered New York Harbor, he was struck by the bright sun glinting on the water and the skyline. "It reminded me of the Middle...
So, at least, thought the Miami Beach Music and Fine Arts Board. In 1963, John Bass, a retired sugar-company executive, offered the city his private collection of 100 works of art, including paintings attributed to Rembrandt, Hals, Vermeer, Rubens, Botticelli, Goya and El Greco. The board urged the city...
James Albert Rosenquist, 34, the Rubens of the billboards, is doing equally well on this side of the Atlantic. The sometime sign painter from Grand Forks, N. Dak., stars this month with 32 works at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa (see color opposite). Gifted with pop art'...
Chicago acquires new works primarily to illuminate the ones it already owns. Jacques Louis David's softly fragmented technique in his 1792 Portrait of the Marquise de Pastoret foreshadows the pointillism of La Grande Jatte. Gustave Caillebotte's huge (7 ft. by 9 ft.), damply breathtaking Place de...
Today, except for serving on civic boards, he relishes his ranch (a 200-acre spread with a private golf course near Palm Springs), his yacht (the 80-ft. Sirius II), his art collection (Rembrandt, El Greco, Vermeer, Rubens) and, above all, his privacy. Ahmanson runs his establishment from his midtown...