Word: painters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Swiss Producer Oertel now lives in the U.S.-occupied town of Wiesbaden, where he is working on a new documentary film (in color) on the life, times and work of 16th Century Flemish Painter Pieter Bruegel...
...Painting as a Pastime and came to some definite conclusions about its author, Winston S. Churchill. "It would seem that if Mr. Churchill . . . considers each new, vacant canvas not as an ultimate objective, but as a point of determined attack," wrote Sherwood, "he must be rated as a young painter who is definitely worth watching...
Collectors, critics and fellow artists crowded Manhattan's Whitney Museum one night last week to pay homage to a somber, solitary painter who stands among the nation's best. It was the opening of Edward Hopper's first full-scale retrospective show in 17 years. On the walls were 171 drawings, etchings, drypoints, watercolors and oils-enough to dizzy gallerygoers on a first visit and delight them on a second or third...
...painter of the American scene, Hopper has only one peer, Buffalo's Charles Burchfield. Like Burchfield, Hopper can make even eyesores magnificent. Shorn of irrelevant details, stripped of sentimental gloss, dismantled and recast in his canvases, they become monuments to their time...
...Horse's Mouth, by Joyce Gary. That rare thing, a first-rate comic novel; the final volume of a wise, hilarious trilogy about a modern Moll Flanders, an eccentric country gentleman and a scapegrace painter (TIME...