Word: theo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lacrosse: "R's"--Mel Morganthall '51, Theo Whatmough '52, Anne Worthington '52, and Sally Vincent...
...Halo of Heat. Van Gogh did the picture at Aries, on Dec. 7, 1888, in the small hours of a restless night. He had been obsessed, he wrote his brother Theo, by a dream of painting himself by candlelight. He got up, lit a candle, put on his old green jacket and began to paint furiously; about three hours later he stopped, leaving the lower fourth of the portrait unpainted. Even unfinished, it was a work exploding with energy. Out of the dark haft of the body the bony head leaped like a candle flame; the face, green-eyed...
Toward the end, before he killed himself, Van Gogh considered his painting a kind of therapy. Writing from an insane asylum to his brother Theo, he said: "I am struggling with all my energy to master my work . . . if I win that will be the best lightning conductor for my illness." That illness was possibly epilepsy, but it has also been defined as manic depression. Today, it might have been given electric shock treatment. As gallerygoers could see, Van Gogh's self-prescribed therapy was also a "shock treatment...
...others: American Factors, Ltd., Castle & Cooke, Ltd., C. Brewer & Co., Ltd., Theo H. Davies...
...exhibits, one featuring the $100 thousand collection of Theo Van Doesburg and the other including the work of Walter A. Wheeler, Jr. '49 are on display at Robinson hall and Paine's of Boston...