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Carl Sandburg did not need the ex tra five years. When he died last week at 89 - the same age as the early 19th century Japanese painter - on his goat farm near Flat Rock, N.C., he was solidly established as a poet and historian...
...Tour, though a native of Picardy, cannily proclaimed himself an English painter. Pastel portraiture was all the rage. Only seven years before, the Italian pastelist Rosalba Carriera had visited Paris and found duchesses and princesses imploring her to do their portraits. La Tour* prudently devoted himself entirely to pastels...
...Louis XV wrote admiringly that "La Tour is becoming the portraitist a la mode." Louis summoned La Tour to Versailles, where he limned the monarch's handsome features, as well as those of the royal family and Madame de Pompadour. Other commissions naturally followed. Along with other prominent painters of the day, he was soon awarded quarters in the Louvre, which then served as a royally endowed artists' colony. In 1750 Louis named him official court painter...
...17th century French Painter Georges de La Tour...
...artists love big canvases? "Largeness," McShine answers, "is part of the American esthetic. The large painting is generally more of a challenge than a small one." Painter...