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...magic. Who had painted them? An old lady of 78, Caldor was told, who lived down on Cambridge Road. She was Anna Mary Robertson Moses, and from that moment until she slipped quietly into death last week at the age of 101, Grandma Moses was almost the most famous painter...
Shango Hymn (Geoffrey Holder and his Trinidad Hummingbirds: Washington). Singer-Painter-Dancer Holder and group, to the accompaniment of water glasses and backs of chairs, offer some authentic samples of Caribbean hymns and work songs that may surprise ears accustomed to steel-band calypso. The rhythms are complex, the melodies evocative, the moods haunting and strange...
Died. Mrs. Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma") Moses, 101, famed U.S. primitive painter; of what her doctor described as "just wearing out"; in Hoosick Falls...
...Painter Gikow never works from a model. When she did in the early days, she found that she was so afraid of hurting the model's feelings that the truth was never there. Instead, she works from memory, using oil so thinned by turpentine that her canvases seem almost fluid. Her blurred edges perform a double duty. They not only make the figure seem able to move, but they also bathe it in the timeless haze of things seen long ago and never forgotten...
...Caught Individual. An intense, brown-eyed woman with an ever-ready wisecrack, Painter Gikow insists that all her friends think of her as "a clown." Like most clowns, she is a well of sadness. Though she can capture the mood of a city with brilliance-a grey and misty Paris, a self-consciously French Brussels, a stifled Madrid with skull eyes for windows-her chief subject is the individual caught in a moment of pain, passion or loneliness. In her Old Folks Home, which was inspired by a nursing home her 81-year-old father was once...