Van Gogh finished the first version of The Bedroom in 1888, the year he moved to Arles and before his friendship with painter Paul Gauguin ended in disaster.
Brown studied with painter and collagist Ray Yoshida and art historian Whitney Halstead, both of whom encouraged him to look to non-Western and nontraditional artists and art forms for inspiration.
There are souvenirs of the excursions that Claude, a French expatriate artist who spent most of his life in Rome, made to the Italian countryside, often with painter friends.
The ideal man du jour isn't so much quick-witted as a quick fixer: in the kind of coincidence that happens only in the News of the World, this week we learnt that both Kerry Katona and Lily Allen have found love with painter and decorators.
The falls' international renown began with painter Thomas Cole's first trip up the Hudson to the Catskill Mountains, in 1825, which inspired 3 famous pictures Cole returned repeatedly to paint the mountins, & in 1836 he settled just beneath them, in the Hudson River Valley town of Catskill.
Meadows' emergence in the 800m, a decade on from a gold medal as a 4x400m runner at the 2000 World Junior Championships in Santiago, bears testimony not just to her talent and character but also to the partnership she has forged with Painter.
When she established her home and studio in Hampstead, London with painter Ben Nicholson before the war, they quickly became the focus of a group of artists that included Piet Mondrian and Naum Gabo, as well as visiting Picasso and Constantin Brancusi in France.
A natural controversialist like his father, he fought vigorously in this and other controversies, such as those in art with painter John Trumbull, in religion with Unitarians and Roman Catholics, in politics with the Irish and abolitionists, and in daguerreotypy of which he was one of the first practitioners in America with Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre's pupil, François Gouraud.
But his talent overcame his provincial surroundings, and his determination to be an artist led him first to art classes in Samara (1893 95) and then to the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture (1897 1904), where he studied with painter Valentin Serov.
Aside from being the insiders' favourite, neck and neck with painter George Shaw, to win this year's Turner prize, as Scotland's representative at the Venice Biennale she has been thrust on to the largest and most prestigious international stage for art.
The 10-day search, though, is hardly as simple as the hunt for a pet, nor is it simply about half-English, half-Indian Tom's recollections of his childhood, or about his enchantment with painter Nelly Zhang or his relationship with his decaying mother.
