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...Keeffe's art, says Museum director of painting and sculpture James Johnson Sweeney, in a forthcoming Museum book on O'Keeffe, is "stark but always constrained. . . . And the way she came to this was by the severest self-stripping." O'Keeffe, a thin, austere-looking woman, has been stripping herself for a long time. Born 58 years ago in the small town of Sun Prairie, Wis., she decided to paint as she pleased, because "it seemed to be the only thing that I could do that did not concern anyone but myself...
Coral Comes High is an unpretentious, stark, blow-by-blow story of a terrible action, well told in the fewest possible words and illustrated with the author's own pen & ink sketches...
...what it's going to say.") He hired a bevy of cartoonists, brought in a new managing editor. Some of his readers, as a result, have seen symptoms of schizophrenia in the magazine, with the young blood contrasting-if not conflicting-with such old "conservative liberals" as Bliven, Stark Young, George Soule and Malcolm Cowley...
Empty Space. Chagall has painted with the eyes (but not the hand) of a child ever since. Although his visions were primitive-on-purpose, they came out far from stark. His colors were as successfully sumptuous as the most lavish ecclesiastical or imperial vestments, and for decoration he assembled a set of props (candles, roosters, violins), to "fill up the empty space in my canvas as the structure of my picture requires . . . and according to my humor...
...first, instantly successful literary works: Sketches by Boz and The Pickwick Papers. He gave up journalism after he married Catherine Hogarth, an unambitious, lethargic Scot, who once remarked of the Garden of Eden: "Eh, mon, it would be nae temptation to me to gae rinning about a gairden stark naked ating green apples...