Sentences with phrase «year before death»

George Herman Ruth drove a variety of cars over the years but one particularly continues to grow great attention: a 1948 Lincoln Continental coupe he given to him right given to him a year before his death.

Rules for Radicals was Alinsky's last book, completed the year before his death, and it laid out his organizing philosophy in detail.

In 1954, a year before his death: «The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.»

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Lockridge Medical Clinic Building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1958, the year before his death in 1959.

But we soon return to celebrity friends such as Ingrid Bergman and Muhammad Ali, reminding the viewer of the artist's fascination and obsession with fame, and of Warhol's commissioned portraits spanning the 1970s right up to the year before his death — with the artist's wish for his «society portraits» to all hang together in a huge display at New York's Museum of Modern Art.

Expanding on an earlier survey at the New Museum, the Bronx exhibition takes the artist from precocious juvenilia to unearthly little pictures done the year before his death from AIDS in 1999.

In 1942, a year before his death, he painted Wild Roses (Phillips Collection).

These paintings from the last twenty years of Adolph Gottlieb's life - beginning with Black, Blue, Red, 1956, supposedly the first of his signature «Bursts» (but in fact a rather messy, hesitant version of the motif), and ending with the deceptively simple Max - Minimal, painted in 1973, a year before his death - raise the question of the late style of a modern artist and more particularly that of an Abstract Expressionist.

This work belongs to the Reversal Series, that he actually started in 1979 and ended one year before his death, in 1986.

That is not what it is,»» Rhoades said in an interview a year before his death.

In 1986, one year before his death, he exhibited works at the Venice Biennale.

So do artists such as Tom Burckhardt, Kathy Butterly, Mary Heilmann, Thomas Nozkowski, and David Reed, all of whom have contributed brief statements — love letters, really — to the catalogue for this eye - opening mini-retrospective, whose fifteen paintings and two collages trace the artist's development from 1961 through 1998, the year before his death.

The works include one of the few paintings by Gustav Klimt in private hands, a 1907 garden landscape estimated at $ 45m (# 36m); and an important Jean - Michel Basquiat work that went under the hammer in 1987, a year before his death.

A year before his death in 1988, Bearden received the prestigious President's National Medal of the Arts.

Robert Motherwell from the Collection: 1941 — 1990, drawn exclusively from the Museum's own holdings, will chart the complete range of the artist's career, with works dating from as early as 1941 to 1990, the year before his death.

Marca - Relli became an honorary Italian citizen the year before his death in 2000.

Released a year before his death from AIDS - related complications, the film mimics the hue that his vision took on as it faded toward the end of his life.

The self - portrait by Anthony Van Dyck — the last one he created, less than a year before his death — will be the centrepiece of the exhibition.

Henri Matisse, too ill to paint in his late years, didn't brood, but took to cutting out coloured paper to make bright, bold marvels such as The Snail, which was made the year before his death aged 84.

Within it, four expansive Anselm Kiefer paintings are juxtaposed with Joseph Beuys's dramatic installation Lightening with Stag in its Glare (1958 — 85), finished only a year before his death.

Wilmarth was appointed a professor at Columbia University in 1986, the year before his death.

The winner of the night was Vincent Van Gogh's Laboureur dans un champ, created a year before his death, which was acquired for $ 81,312,500 with buyer's premium, settling as the second highest auction price for the beloved Dutch artist.

A year before his death, in 1981, Tworkov was interviewed by Gerald Silk, who asked him about the «sudden change» his art underwent as the 1960s began.

The late Daniel Robbins was an art historian at the The Rhode Island School of Design who organized Murch's first major retrospective in 1966, a year before his death from a heart attack on December 11, 1967.

Nevertheless, he continued to win numerous awards and taught at the Art Students League from 1915 until a year before his death from cancer on July 12, 1929.

Between 1952 and 1966, the year before her death, Luke's work was included in 80 group exhibitions, as well as Painters Eleven group shows, two - person and solo exhibitions.

Here, he did not find the success he had hoped for, and it was not until 1959 that he obtained his first solo exhibition at the Saint - Germain Gallery - four years after his arrival and one year before his death.

Krasner is one of the few artists on this list who saw a retrospective of her work mounted during her lifetime (in 1983, a year before her death).

A year before his death in 1879 Christian Lorck Schive — a wealthy local landowner — established a trust in order to support artists in Norway.

The piece, Secondary Stories, was created by Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander and acquired by Pace in 2006, just a year before her death.

In 1962, Arneson began a long and distinguished teaching career at the University of California Davis, a position he held until a year before his death from liver cancer at age sixty - two.

The title of the exhibition fits well: from his earliest object on display, Hunting Dogs Project (1961), a model for a public garden in the form of a maze, to PN27 Penetrable, made in 1979, a year before his death, there is a definite drive in the artist's work to contain a boundless and unpredictable human body, including the collective body — with all its joyful and painful emotions — within a certain aesthetic frame.

The text of the film is based entirely on the Stéphane Mallarmé poem, «A Roll of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance,» published in 1897, the year before his death.

She served as director of the Hoffberger School until 2007, one year before her death.

Organized by Sergio Bessa and Yasmin Ramirez, and with nearly a hundred paintings, it brings to New York for the first time a complete view of one of our great urban visionaries, from his precocious juvenilia to the unearthly little pictures from the year before his death from AIDS.

The Whitney Museum of American Art mounted his first major American museum retrospective in 1988, one year before his death in 1989.

John Loengard's iconic black - and - white photographs of Reinhardt working in his studio in 1966, a year before his death, only begin to approximate the moody atmospheres that Reinhardt's late paintings convey.

This statement resonates with Judd's own views, and in 1993, just a year before his death, he concluded that, «It never occurred to me to make a three - dimensional work without color.

He became a British citizen one year before his death, in protest of America's initial reluctance to enter World War I. His stories often placed American characters in a European setting, interacting with Europeans.

In the final portrait of Mozart from 1790, a year before his death, he is painted as puffy and bloated, his face ravaged by alcoholism.

From 1927, the year of his debut for Shochiku studios, to 1962, when, a year before his death at age sixty, he made his final film, Ozu consistently explored the rhythms and tensions of a country trying to reconcile modern and traditional values, especially as played out in relations between the generations.

Pierre Renoir's final film was Dr. Knock, completed the year before his death.

The researchers found that during the 3 - year study period, 1496 people were victims of homicide, and 6 % (90) of them had been under the care of mental health services in the year before their death.

Number theorists have now finally managed to make sense of one of his more enigmatic statements, written just one year before his death in 1920.

Spitzer, who was the father of former governor and attorney general Eliot Spitzer, sponsored its co-op conversion in 1984, and moved into the building as a resident a year before his death.

For cancers, we partitioned direct costs into those for the year of diagnosis, each year after the year of diagnosis, and the year before death from that cancer.

This is almost exactly a year before his death, and both the interview and his lecture, «The Fateful Rift: The San Andreas....

A year before her death at seventy - nine, the greathearted humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt wrote: «There is so much to do, so many engrossing challenges, so many heartbreaking and pressing needs.»

But a year before his death in 1957, Rivera replaced that pronouncement with the innocuous message now there.

Finding the structural images of house and household far more adequate, he wrote a new draft and then, in the year before his death, thoroughly rewrote it in response to criticisms and suggestions from the persons named in his statement of acknowledgment.