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Missouri's Painter Thomas Hart Benton had a longstanding date with several canoes. He wrote: "Last autumn, after a canoe trip in the Ozarks, I asked an official of our Missouri State Conservation office to set me up a spring survey of our major clear water streams. As I initiated this venture, as canoes have been assembled at various points, guides and camp equipment hired and plans made for meetings with area groups, I cannot very well ask for a postponement...
Bald, gross, and illiterate Emile a Tae, 64, half-caste Tahitian son of Painter Paul Gauguin, used to let tourists take his picture for a few francs, just enough to keep himself in beer. Now, at London's prestigious O'Hana Gallery, his own childlike oil-on-canvas pictures are bringing from $700 to $1,400 apiece, and he has learned to sign them Emile Gauguin. He has reformed too, says fortyish mentor, Madame Josette Giraud, a French writer who bailed him out of jail several times and put a paintbrush in his hand. When word gets back...
...Ageless Ornament. In Paris, too, an attempt at rehabilitation is going on. The painter Giovanni Boldini came to Paris in 1872 from his native Italy, where his father made quite a good living faking Guardis and Mantegnas. To this unusual but effective grounding in the old masters, Boldini added a talent for portraiture, and soon all of high society was knocking at his studio. When Paris opened its current retrospective of nearly 300 works, Jean Cocteau made a strained effort to rank Boldini as a precursor of Giacometti and Georges Mathieu. But turning Boldini into a "modern" is beside...
...than these negative advantages. Three times during his childhood and adolescence William James traveled in Europe for prolonged periods. He attended school and was tutored in England, France, Switzerland, and Germany. And, when he thought he might become a professional artist, he was able to study with the renowned painter, W. M. Hunt, in Newport, Rhode Island...
...world today." says Pop Art Collector Philip Johnson, whose architecture is the essence of elegance. ''It is a very sharp reaction against abstract expressionism, and as such, it is a great relief to see, because we recognize the pretty girls and the pop bottles." But Surrealist Painter Max Ernst, who belonged to the Dada movement, hoots down such paeans: "It is just some feeble bubbles of flat Coca-Cola, which I consider less than interesting and rather...