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Edmund Hillary
E DMUNDH ILLARY Born: July 20, 1919 Auckland, New Zealand New Zealander explorer and mountaineer Edmund Hillary was one of the greatest explorers and mountaineers of the twentieth century. His conquest of Mount Everest and the South Pole inspired... Read more |
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William Tucker
Tucker, William (1935– ). British-born abstract sculptor, writer on art, and teacher who settled in the USA in 1976 and later became an American citizen. After reading history at Oxford University, 1955–8, he studied in London at the Central School of Art and Design and St Martin's... Read more |
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New York School
New York School. Term applied to the innovatory painters, especially the Abstract Expressionists, who worked in New York in the 1940s and 1950s and whose critical and financial success helped the city to replace Paris as the world's leading centre of avant-garde art. An exhibition staged by the Los... Read more |
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Aniello Falcone
Aniello Falcone , 1607-56, Italian baroque painter of the Neapolitan school. He is known primarily for his battle pieces. There are examples in the National Museum, Naples; the Prado; and the Louvre.... Read more |
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University of Memphis
University of Memphis at Memphis, Tenn.; coeducational; opened 1912 as a normal school, became West Tennessee State Teachers College in 1925. The school was renamed Memphis State College in 1941 and in 1957 received university status as Memphis State Univ.; it was renamed in 1994. It is the... Read more |
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David Mannes
David Mannes , 1866-1959, American violinist, conductor, and educator, b. New York City. Mannes was violinist in the New York Symphony Orchestra from 1891 and its concertmaster from 1898 to 1912. In 1912 he founded the Music School Settlement for Colored People and in 1916, with his wife, the Mannes... Read more |
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School of Pont-Aven
Pont-Aven, School of. Term applied to a group of painters associated with Gauguin during his periods of work at the town of Pont-Aven in Brittany (1886, 1888–9, 1894), and inspired by his anti-naturalistic style. Émile Bernard was among them, and he and Gauguin together developed... Read more |
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