NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 1953 in art

See also: 1952 in art - Other events of 1953 - 1954 in art - List of years in art 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... See also: 1953 in art - Other events of 1954 - 1955 in art - List of years in art // Events Works Jasper Johns - Flag Willem de Kooning - Marilyn Monroe Exhibitions Births March 23 - Kenneth Cole, fashion designer Deaths May 16 - Werner Bischof, photographer July 13 - Frida Kahlo, painter September 8 - AndrÃ© Derain... This page indexes the individual year in art pages. ...

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Milton Menasco - 'La Troienne' and Her Foals: Eighteen Vignettes and One Painting Together in One Frame for John Whitney

Milton Menasco (1890 – 1974) was an American painter and art director of silent movies born in Los Angeles, California. ...

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April 24 - Eric Bogosian, performance artist
date unknown - Kevin O'Neill, illustrator

April 24 is the 114th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (115th in leap years). ... Eric Bogosian (born April 24, 1953 in Woburn, Massachusetts) is an American playwright, performance artist, monologist, and novelist of Armenian descent. ... Kevin ONeill is a British comic illustrator. ...

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Alice Prin ("Kiki de Montparnasse"), artist, model and entertainer
November 30 - Francis Picabia, painter and poet

Categories: 1953 | Years in art Kiki, was the stage name for Alice Ernestine Prin (1901 - 1953), a nightclub singer, actress, model, and painter. ... November 30 is the 334th day (335th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 31 days remaining, as the final day of November. ... Francis-Marie Martinez Picabia (January 28, 1879 - November 30, 1953) was a well-known painter and poet born of a French mother and a Spanish father who was an attaché at the Cuban legation in Paris, France. ...

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U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > J. Mark Trice, Secretary of the Senate, 1953-1955 (1489 words)
	Early in January 1953, a very frightened and somewhat timid desert rat landed in Washington, feeling as out of place as anyone possibly could.
	I had not been in my hotel room 15 minutes when the phone rang and the voice at the other end said, `This is Mark Trice.' I wondered then who that could be.
	In 1953, with the Republicans back in the majority, the fifty-year-old Trice finally advanced to the post of Senate secretary.

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