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DIED. Maureen Orcutt, 99, who played on four U.S. Curtis Cup teams and won more than 60 amateur golf championships, raising the profile of the women's sport during the 1930s, when no professional tour for women existed; in Durham, N.C. A World Golf Hall of Famer, she later wrote a column on golf for the New York Times, in which, as one of the nation's first female sportswriters, she tirelessly promoted the women's game...
Pointing to an almost cartoonish Civil War battle scene by American artist Winslow Homer, also featured in the exhibit, Orcutt says Bellows’ style is unprecedented...
According to Orcutt, Bellows was known for his “brash, bold and masculine” paintings, particularly of those featuring muscular boxers and the crowd fixated on them. In his time, Bellows was considered the quintessential American artist, though his work gradually seemed less fashionable and inventive compared to the modern art emanating from Europe...
While the exhibition was planned months ago to mark the recent acquisition of the lithographs from the artist’s estate, it remains timely, Orcutt says...
...acquisition of the lithographs come at a time when war is once again a crucial issue,” Orcutt says. “Seeing these works in the current climate will highlight the ways that art can speak in different voices to different generations, and how we as viewers create new layers of meaning for works of art as we integrated the artist’s intentions with our own experiences and beliefs...