Tamiris, Helen
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Tamiris, Helen [née Becker] (1905–66), choreographer. The native New Yorker studied with Michael Fokine, danced for the Metropolitan Opera, and founded her own company before coming to the Broadway stage late in her career. She received recognition with her “Currier and Ives Ballet” in
Up in Central Park (1945), followed by such musicals as
Show Boat (1946),
Annie Get Your Gun (1946),
Park Avenue (1946),
Inside U. S. A. (1948),
Touch and Go (1949),
Flahooley (1951),
Fanny (1954), and
Plain and Fancy (1955).
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Profile: Artist Clyfford Still's career in painting
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 8/15/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...0000 Profile: Artist Clyfford Still's career in painting...generation. VAN OSS: Most of Clyfford Still's canvases contain...What attracted them to Still, but could also put...anything else. VAN OSS: Clyfford Still claimed his paintings...
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DENVER SELECTS SITE FOR CLYFFORD STILL MUSEUM
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 2/28/2006; 700+ words
; ...Mayor John Hickenlooper and Clyfford Still Museum board chair Christopher Hunt announced Tuesday that the Clyfford Still Museum, the latest in a...two upcoming lectures; Who is Clyfford Still ...and Why Does he Matter by...
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Art handlers turn a 1949 painting by Clyfford Still after it is unrolled for the first time since the artist's family rolled it. Watching the process are art historian David Anfam, third from right in back, Frederick Schroeder, representing the Clyfford Still museum, and Sandra Still Campbell.(Home Front)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 1/5/2008; 700+ words
; ...1935 oil on canvas. INFOBOX Clyfford Still: a life * 1904: Born Nov...THE ROCKY CAPTION: CAPTION: Still, photographed by his daughter...gouache on paper painting by Clyfford Still. CLYFFORD STILL ESTATE CAPTION: Sandra...
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The Clyfford Still Art Collection is Bequeathed to the City of Denver; Denver will Create Museum to Care for Collection of Over 2,000 Works by the Late, Great American Artist Clyfford Still.
PR Newswire; 8/9/2004; 650 words
; ...late American artist Clyfford Still. Most of Still's works...by her late husband, Clyfford Still. Also, Mrs...for Mrs. Patricia A. Still. "We are grateful for...For a biography of Clyfford Still, visit the Guggenheim...
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The Clyfford Still Art Collection is Bequeathed to the City of Denver.
PR Newswire; 8/9/2004; 626 words
; ...Great American Artist Clyfford Still Mayor John Hickenlooper...late American artist Clyfford Still. Most of Still...for Mrs. Patricia A. Still. "We are grateful for...For a biography of Clyfford Still, visit the Guggenheim...
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First impression Denver finally gets an extended close-up of Clyfford Still's work.(Spotlight)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 7/7/2007; ; 584 words
; ...acquired the estate of painter Clyfford Still in 2004, you've been wondering...dedicated solely to his work? "Clyfford Still Unveiled: Selections From...the staggering 2,400-piece Clyfford Still Museum collection a taste...
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CLYFFORD STILL MUSEUM, CITY TO RECEIVE ARCHIVES, ARTWORK INSTITUTION WILL BE DEVOTED TO THE WORK, LIFE OF NOTED PAINTER.(News)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 10/7/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Mary Voelz Chandler, Rocky Mountain News The Clyfford Still Museum and city of Denver will receive the artist...Untitled (PH-118), 1947, is an oil on canvas by Clyfford Still. The Clyfford Still Museum and city of Denver have been named...
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THE SCENIC ROUTE CLYFFORD STILL MUSEUM CHIEF'S BUSINESS CAREER LED HIM TO ART.(Spotlight)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 2/15/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...project director for Denver's Clyfford Still Museum came to the art world in...Abstract Expressionist painter Clyfford Still. Negotiations continue with...Sobel New project director for the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver * Previous...
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From Clyfford Still, another 'bolt out of the blue'
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 3/21/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...creator, the Abstract Expressionist Clyfford Still, who died in 1980 at 75. Despite...single piece alongside his. All Clyfford Still, all the time.Most textbooks...had chosen Denver as host of a Clyfford Still Museum, largely because...
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Officials announce location of Clyfford Still Museum in the U.S.
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 3/1/2006; 342 words
; ...works by 20th-century painter Clyfford Still. The 18,500-square-foot...parking and pedestrian access, the Clyfford Still Museum's board of directors...cultural Mecca, so the fact that the Clyfford Still Museum can join those existing...
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Clyfford Still
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Clyfford Still Clyfford Still (1904-1980) was one of the pioneers of Abstract Expressionism...life he chose isolation from other styles and most other artists. Clyfford Still was born in 1904 in Grandin, North Dakota. During his childhood...
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Still, Clyfford
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Still, Clyfford ( b Grandin, N. Dak., 30 Nov. 1904...By the time he returned to New York, Still had created his mature style and had a...used fairly flat, unmodulated pigment, Still used heavily loaded, expressively modulated...
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Richard Diebenkorn
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...became his teacher and good friend; Elmer Bischoff; Clyfford Still; and Mark Rothko. Stimulated by these contacts as...covered by a thick textured brushstroke in the manner of Clyfford Still. In 1948 Diebenkorn had his first one man show at...
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abstract expressionism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Hans Hofmann , Robert Motherwell , and Mark Rothko ; among other major abstract expressionists were such painters as Clyfford Still , Theodoros Stamos , Adolph Gottlieb , Helen Frankenthaler , Lee Krasner , and Esteban Vicente. Abstract expressionism...
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Smith, Tony
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...closely associated with leading avant-garde figures such as Barnett Newman , Jackson Pollock , Mark Rothko , and Clyfford Still , he did not exhibit sculpture publicly until 1964. From that time he quickly emerged as one of the leading exponents...
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