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...youth was none too lighthearted: a series of nights during World War I from his native Austria to Budapest and finally to the U.S. in 1921, when he was 17. At one time he was a bus boy in Atlantic City; at another, he and his close friend, Painter Raphael Soyer, enrolled in a class to learn machine embroidery. When Gross got married, friends had to help out. "Someone bought me a ring; someone else provided the wedding supper, and a third bought the marriage license." All the while he studied art, but before 1935, the year...
...found a cluster of sneering viewers around Matisse's Woman with a Hat (see color). Sarah grew to love the painting, happened to be in the gallery a few days later when Matisse made his one and only visit. Sarah soon found herself in deep conversation with the painter, who told her that the painting was actually a portrait of his wife, and that she had worn a black dress when posing. "Matisse created that symphony of color," Sarah told friends later...
...have a friend, a wife and mother, who is a splendid painter," Mrs. Wheeler said. "America would grow by seeing her art work, but she has no concept of herself as someone through whom others might learn. It's not necessary that she have this self-image, of course; but it would be nice...
...politics he is a leftist "within the constitution." Yet López Mateos has not hesitated to come down hard on troublesome leftists at home. Last week his regime came down hard on Mexico's No. 1 leftist (and No. 1 artist), David Alfaro Siqueiros. 65. The Communist painter, who has already been behind bars for 20 months, was sentenced to eight years in the federal penitentiary for "social dissolution"-i.e., troublemaking during student demonstrations in August...
During his 83 years of life. Painter John Marin knew both popular and critical acclaim, but there were times when he felt a touch of bitterness. While the public and critics applauded his fluid watercolors, his oils were so assiduously ignored that Marin used to refer to his ever-increasing stock of unsold canvases as his "Dark Room Collection." Since his death in 1953. admirers have been trying to focus more light on the dark room. Their efforts came to a climax last week with the opening of a major Marin retrospective at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington...