Word: wyeth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the art market orbiting at ever higher prices, heading a small museum gets increasingly frustrating. The Denver Art Museum, for instance, has only $16,000 a year to spend on new acquisitions -a sum that would not even begin to buy a top De Kooning or an Andrew Wyeth, let alone an old master. Yet last week Denver was the proud possessor of a Rembrandt (see color), proving that all is not lost in the little league...
...they see for other people to enjoy." Picasso is Hartford's idea of an ivory tower artist ("no communication"); his leading contender for immortality is Dali. from whom he commissioned a 14-ft. by 12-ft. painting, Christopher Columbus Discovers America. He also admires the work of Andrew Wyeth, Robert Vickrey, Aaron Bohrod, "and of course, Marjorie Steele. She may be my exwife, but I think she is one of the greatest woman painters today." Tennis, Anyone? Hartford has many another project. Barring an unfavorable court decision, he is planning to spend $1,700,000 to bring the civilized...
...article on the Summer school seems to be rather illogical if one considers first that during the academic year Harvard is surrounded by institutions such as by contrast, is co-educational. Certainly, females in such companionship as to travel two hundred miles for said commodity. (Miss) Marjory Freincle, 311 Wyeth Hall, Brooklyn college--1961, Harvard Law School...
...cover portraits. On a light blue background, Bernard Buffet showed us a lined and ascetic Charles de Gaulle. In a departure from his usual semi-abstractionism, Rufino Tamayo outlined the face of Mexican President Lopez Mateos on green and red, as seen through a white Milky Way, Andrew Wyeth did a vapid semi-profile of Dwight Eisenhower that reflects the subject more closely than the painter realized...
...some floating rectangles by Mark Rothko. A client, his mind a mass of figures, hustles past a superb African sculpture and suddenly finds himself confronting an 18th century ship's figurehead standing next to an abstraction by Joan Mitchell. Here and there a Charles Burchfield or an Andrew Wyeth appears; there is a convulsed semi-abstraction by Larry Rivers, a grisly head by Leon Golub, a surrealist landscape by Kay Sage, a calligraphic work by Mathieu and splashy one by Adolph Gottlieb. An executive vice president who insisted that all he wanted was a print of the port...