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La Tour, Elizabeth "Liz"
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La Tour, Elizabeth "Liz"
Born to this life Oct. 14, 1916. Entered Eternal Life on Mon.,
Jan. 16, 2006, age 89. Preceded in death by her husband Clifford.
Loving mother of Lyn (Jim) Reed, Richard La Tour (Jean Johnson)
(Robin Farell) and Jac (Jackie) La Tour. Survived by sister Eleanor
Stevenson. Proud grand-mother of Jennifer (Victor) Nkonga, Rachael
Zastrow, Seth (Christine) La Tour, Jesse L...
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Touring La Tour's Work
The Washington Post
; YOUNG PAINTERS tend to put more art than heart into their early works, using tricks of technique to cover callowness. Georges de La Tour, on the other hand, was born deep but seems to have grown steadily shallower as he aged. La Tour (1593-1652), who lived and worked in relative obscurity in
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A Dark and Stormy Light; La Tour's Troubled Visions Raise Sobering Questions About Faith
The Washington Post
; The painter Georges de La Tour was a summoner of shadows. They creep into his pictures as they crept into his soul, deepening his doubts, darkening his joys. There are nearly 30 of his paintings in "Georges de La Tour and His World," which opened yesterday at the National Gallery of Art. These are
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Exhibit's a La Tour de force: Baroque artist's potent light-and-dark technique swaddles D.C. gallery.(Arts)(Painting)
The Washington Times
; Few artists painted light as intensely and emotionally as did Georges de La Tour, as we see in the first major U.S. retrospective mounted of his work. Georges de La Tour and His World, a concentrated showing of 33 paintings by and attributed to him and of 10 works by his contemporaries, opens at
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La Tour in Paris: Of Light and Tragedy
International Herald Tribune
; Souren Melikian International Herald Tribune 10-11-1997 Some great art shows also tell a great story, but the ''Georges de La Tour'' (1593-1652) retrospective, at the Grand Palais until Jan. 26, beats them all. How the oeuvre of a great French master was forgotten to the point where his signature
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Rare La Tour Hung Unnoticed Till Viewer Saw the Light
The Washington Post
; An unsigned painting by 17th-century French master Georges de La Tour has been discovered in a Madrid mansion after hanging in offices unnoticed for decades. The painting, "Saint Jerome Reading a Letter," is only the second work by La Tour known to exist in Spain, and one of only about a dozen of
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