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Impatiently plotting to get sprung from the Hoosick Falls (N.Y.) Health Center, where she has been temporarily inactivated for the past two months, Pastoral Painter Grandma Moses breezed past her latest birthday with one modest request, "I want my 101st to be the same as my first-very quiet...
...middle of the 15th century, few cities in Christendom bustled with such prosperity as Mantua, and few princelings patronized the arts so diligently as the Marchese Lodovico Gonzaga. His court painter was Andrea Mantegna. and the walls and ceilings of his grim Gothic castle boasted some of the master's finest work. This week, in that same castle, Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi opens an exhibition that should restore...
...studied under the strict Paduan master, Francesco Squarcione. He was such a precocious pupil that, at the age of 17, he got a commission to do a number of frescoes in Padua's Ovetari Chapel. From then on his future seemed secure. He married the daughter of the painter Jacopo Bellini; the Marchese Francesco Gonzaga made him a knight, and Lorenzo the Magnificent sang his praises...
...Best Man. During World War II, O'Brien marked time unhappily as an Army sergeant at Massachusetts' Camp Edwards. His poor eyesight (20/400 vision) redlined him for combat duty. On one ten-day furlough he married Elva Brassard, the daughter of a Springfield house painter. They had courted sporadically for five years-on O'Brien's terms. "It was always going to political rallies, or running over to see what the city council was doing," recalls Elva O'Brien. "That was Larry's idea of a date." Their best man was Foster Furcolo...
...their claims. Abstractionist Lanyon denounces current French painting as dull, and adds: "New York has a sense of bigness. We needn't paint big. We haven't got the great land mass behind us. British art is emerging from limbo. It's individual, not a school." Painter Frost says: "The ruination of British art was the bloody Establishment. It was getting to be a bloody ladies' watercolor circle. Now that we've got some ordinary blokes in it, maybe we'll make a noise...