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...He winced and came up with the yellowish to cream Ghislaine de Féligonde, a smaller-growing rose whose main enemy is its cumbrous name; Debutante, a small flowered rose-pink with a long season; Ethel, whose...
...One image from Ethel Smyth’s life sticks in the memory....
...Some, like Gluck and Ethel Sands, were lesbians....
...It is from a painting by my husband, Oisin Byrne, of a bunch of flowers. These were tulips that I had planted, then picked and stuck in a pot. He took them to his studio and drew them....
...And without the decisive Photomat silkscreens “Ethel Scull 36 Times”, which the Metropolitan Museum curator Henry Geldzahler called “the most successful portrait of the 1960s . . ....
...I played the scene in Singin’ in the Rain, where Debbie Reynolds smashes out of a giant pink and white cake topped with bunches of yellow flowers....
...Van Vechten’s pictures of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Zora Neale Hurston and Ethel Waters stress their hard-earned dignity....
...No longer is your average person willing to shuffle off this mortal coil with a nondescript outfit, generic flowers and hastily designed order of service....
...As with Tate Britain’s Queer Art last year, works from the 1910s-30s resound more as social rather than art history, and indeed many of the same pieces are shown: Ethel Sands’ portrait of her chintz sofa...
...Ernest, a milkman, courts Ethel, a domestic servant, with flowers and cinema and dancing. A son — Raymond — is born into this cosy world of rosy cheeks and cheery dispositions. War comes and goes....
...I thought of Ethel Merman. I tried to summon the kind of star quality shimmering from every page of the Dukeshill ham catalogue....
...She made an art form of combining chintz, fresh flowers, open fires and “a gentle mixture of furniture”....
...His subject matter may have been shocking sometimes, but he always reverted in good time to banausic portraits or super-perfect pictures of flowers....
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