Word: wyeth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That Steinberg made that passage, few of his colleagues doubt. But he is one of the very few American graphic artists to have done so; not even the big popular illustrators of earlier years, N.C. Wyeth or Maxfield Parrish, Norman Rockwell or Charles Dana Gibson, can quite bear that claim. Esquire magazine's design director, Milton Glaser, sees Steinberg as a cartoonist who "by some extraordinary series of shifts became a major artist ... It is very hard to truthfully understand what happened to him on the way, not only in terms of self-transformation but in terms...
...subject enthusiastically approved of the portrait that went on display at Manhattan's Coe Kerr Gallery. "It makes me look as jolly as you could after a hard day's work," said Dancer Rudolf Nureyev. Artist Jamie Wyeth had dogged his footsteps, making sketches "before, during and after" each performance of the three ballets Nureyev performed on Broadway last winter. As for Jamie, he had second thoughts about the portrait. The fur coat suddenly looked odd. "I mean, he doesn't wear it at the bar," he objected, then reconsidered. "But I was interpretive in my painting...
...carry their names. The stone farmhouse on a lavender Proveçnal hill proclaims Cézanne; the shuttered hotel room with a blue glimpse of sea beyond a curlicued balcony announces Matisse. On a less exalted level, can one drive through rural Pennsylvania and not think of Andrew Wyeth? It happens in California too, through the work of Richard Diebenkorn...
...been around since 1958, but underwent such a face lift this year that any resemblance to the old, hardcover, quarterly coffee-table sampler of art and high culture is coincidental. The new Horizon will be a soft-cover monthly as of September, and light-years more lively. Artist Andrew Wyeth's naked Virgin was the cover of the May issue, and Dancers Mikhail Baryshnikov and Christine Sarry are whooping it up on the next issue. Inside the magazine are heavily illustrated essays on such trendy topics as discothèques, women in film, a new "gymnastics fever" and photograph...
...know why I stayed away so long," said Andrew Wyeth, 59, on his first trip to Europe. The artist flew to Paris on the Concorde, caught the floor show at the Lido and strolled around the city. "The intricacy of the buildings fascinates me," he reflected. "It's such a contrast to New England with its simplicity." With the help of Sons Nicholas and Jamie, Wyeth readied himself for the real reason for his visit: his induction into the prestigious Academic des Beaux-Arts. Only the second American painter to receive the honor-the first was John Singer Sargent...