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...sake of Philip Guston or Sam Francis. His actual greatness resides in the way in which he marked, and then transcended, his own cultural perimeter. He provoked Impressionism rather as Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon provoked Cubism; and the crucial encounter here was with an older painter, Eugene-Louis Boudin, whom he met somewhere around...
...started traveling in 1490 when he was not quite 19. He had spent four years apprenticed to a master painter and engraver in Nuremberg, Michael Wolgemut; he now set off to Colmar, to work under Martin Schongauer. The trip turned into a couple of Wanderjahrce through Germany, and he did not reach Colmar until 1492. When he got there, Schongauer was dead. His restless wanderings across Europe included two trips to Venice, and were capped by a yearlong sojourn in The Netherlands, where he was a celebrity among celebrities, moving in a nimbus of fame through a circle that included...
Unhallowed Significance. Between the garden and the town, the tourist passes the ruins of the castle of Illiers, built in 1019 by Geoffroy D'llliers Vicomte de Châteaudun. British Biographer George D. Painter points out that one of the wrecked towers "had an unhallowed significance for Marcel: It could be seen from the lavatory where he would retire whenever he needed privacy to read, weep, or make his first experiments in the pleasures of sex-experiments which were not without their heroic side, since he was not sure at first that their rending delight would...
Georgia O'Keeffe, L.H.D., painter. Like the desert plants you paint, you flourish in hardy surroundings, irrigating apparently barren territory with visionary insight. You have shown that great gifts can be tough and womanly, lyrical and enduring...
...benefit of Northwest Settlement House (admission $3.50) was making the welkin ring with the help of highly amplified announcements by Humorist Art Buchwald, in full ringmaster's regalia. Seven of Ethel's eleven offspring were on hand, and so was Uncle Ted-Ted Kennedy, the painter, that is. Next day, his painting Red Shack brought the high bid of $3,000 at an art auction in Boston for the benefit of the Kennedy Library Fund (seascapes by his sisters, Patricia Lawford and Jean Smith, fetched only $1,500 and $900 respectively). The purchaser was Miami Millionaire Ollie Cohen...