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Chicago-born Joan Mitchell, 34, says that New York has become too "big, successful and public." So in 1958, Painter Mitchell went to live in Paris. There she wages constant battle against the obtrusive image. "I don't want to see anything on the canvas," says she. "For that, I could just as well look out the window." Yet she is still "bothered by the accuracy of my painting," for paint ing should be describable in no terms but painting. "It has to mean something. But I don't know what that means...
...famous. His big (6 ft. by 10 ft.) Landers' Peak, Rocky Mountains was sold for $25.000; his Storm in the Rocky Mountains (12 ft. by 7 ft.) brought $35,000. British critics raved about him ("as devoted a lover of the grandest scenes in nature as any painter who ever lived''). The French gave him the Legion of Honor, and the Austrians bestowed on him their Order of St. Stanislas. At 37, tall, proud Albert Bierstadt was at his peak...
...stores and schools all over New York City last week, a manifesto turned up calling for a DEMONSTRATION. It was signed by two relatively unknown representational painters who were fed up with what seemed to them to be the Museum of Modern Art's lopsided patronage of the abstract, the sensational, and even the absurd. The museum, said the document, "has developed the public image of the painter as a madly inspired child, rather than an adult human being...
...exhibition's paintings came from the Royal Collection), and the commissioning of portraits was once almost as much a part of a horseman's way of life as racing or breeding or hunting. In the 18th and early 19th centuries, the golden age of such art, painter after painter recorded England's placid world of privilege, where the horses often seemed to outrank the people. But of all the painters, none ever matched the horses of George Stubbs (see color...
Walter Paepcke became what is called a patron of the arts, and the patronage has now spread throughout the business world. The first-rate architect is in demand as never before; the painter and businessman are on speaking terms; and no tycoon's home or office seems quite complete without its work of art. This has been one of the major art news stories of the decade, and one of the men who helped write it was Walter Paepcke, who died last week...