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Hedda Sterne, Romanian-born American painter and printmaker died she was , 100

Hedda Sterne (born Hedwig Lindenberg) was an artist best remembered as the only woman in a group of Abstract Expressionists known as "The Irascibles" which consisted of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, and others  died she was , 100. Sterne was, in fact, the only woman photographed with the group by Nina Leen for Life magazine in 1950. In her artistic endavors she created a body of work known for exhibiting a stubborn independence from styles and trends, including Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism, with which she is often associated.

(August 4, 1910 – April 8, 2011)

Sterne has been almost completely overlooked in art historical narratives of the post-war American art scene. At the time of her death, possibly the last surviving artist of the first-generation of the New York School, Hedda Sterne viewed her widely varied works more as in flux than as definitive statements.[2] In 1944 she married Saul Steinberg the Romanian-born American cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his work for The New Yorker.
During the late 1940s she became a member of The Irascible Eighteen, a group of abstract painters who protested the Metropolitan Museum of Art's policy towards American painting of the 1940s and who posed for a famous picture in 1950; members of the group besides Sterne included: Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt, Richard Pousette-Dart, William Baziotes, Jimmy Ernst, Jackson Pollock, James Brooks, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Theodoros Stamos, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko.[3]
Her works are in the collections of museums including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, also in Washington D.C. She turned 100 in August 2010.[4]

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Biography

Sterne was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1910 as Hedwig Lindenberg. Born to Simon Lindenberg, a high school language teacher,and Eugenie (Wexler) Lindenberg. She was the second child with her only sibling, Edouard, who later became a prominent conductor in Paris.[5] Sterne was raised with artistic values from a young age, most notably, her tie to Surrealism, which stemmed from a family friend, Victor Brauner.[5] Sterne was homeschooled until age 11. Upon her high school graduation in 1927,at age 17, she attended art classes in Vienna, then had a short attendance at the University of Bucharest studying philosophy and art history before she dropped out to pursue artistic training independently.[6] She spent time traveling, especially to Paris developing her technical skills as both a painter and sculptor. Hedda Sterne married a childhood friend Frederick Sterne in 1932 when she was 22. In 1941 she escaped a certain death from Nazi encroachment during WWII when she fled to New York to be with Frederick. In 1944 she remarried Saul Steinberg and became a U.S. citizen. It is not mentioned if she ever had children. She was involved in many shows and exhibits in New York and practiced her art up until macular dgenration set in and she could no longer paint, but continued to draw. Then when she was 94 Sterne had a stroke that affected her vision and movement and thereafter was unable to make art at all.[7]

Chronology

  • 1910 - Born in Bucharest, Romania.
  • 1919 - Her father Simon dies. Her mother remarries Leonida Cioara, the partner in their family business.
  • 1927 - Finishes high school.
  • 1928 - Enters University of Bucharest to study Art History and Philosophy but finds curriculum limiting and leaves after a year to do independent study.
  • 1932 - Marries childhood friend Frederick Stern. They divorced in 1944.
  • 1939 - WWII begins.
  • 1941 - Barely escaping a massacre of Jews in her apartment building Hedda flees to New York. Meets Peggy Guggenheim through which she meets several artists.
  • 1944 - Marries Saul Steinberg. Sterne Becomes U.S. citizen.
  • 1950 - Named one of country's best artists under age of 36 in the March 20 issue of Life. Signs a letter to President of The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 20 to protest aesthetically conservative group-exhibition juries.[5] All signers are dubbed "The Irascibles" in an articles about the letter wherein the famous Nina Leen photograph of the artists is published for the first time.
  • 1960 - Sterne and Steinberg separate but remain close friends. Begins to disengage socially with the art world and leads an increasingly private life.
  • 1992 - In November, meets the art dealer Philippe Briet, the beginning of a sustainable friendship leading to several projects, which will be interrupted by his prematured death in February 1997. In October 1994, he introduces writer Michel Butor to Hedda Sterne, being at the origin of their collaboration for the book he would publish in September 1995, "La Révolution dans l'Arboretum".
  • 1997 - Macular degeneration causes Sterne to stop painting, however she continues drawing.
  • 1999 - Her second husband Saul Steinberg dies.
  • 2004 - Suffers stroke. Makes a remarkable recovery but her eyesight fails causing her to stop practicing her art.
  • 2006 - "Uninterrupted Flux: Hedda Sterne; A Retrospective" is written.
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  • 2010 - Sterne reaches her 100th birthday in August.
  • 2011 - Dies in New York at age 100.

Quotes

  • "I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one."
  • "Nobody tried to influence me, I just worked."
  • "I always thought that art is not quote self-expression but communication."
  • "It's malentendu to consider me Abstract Expressionist. I was invited to participate in many things, but I never considered myself part of that group, or any group, and it shows in my work."
  • "I cannot stand that every time people talk about you they immediately want to place you in a box--influenced by so and so...But you do not derive directly from anyone."
  • "My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see."
  • "I always painted ideas, I have to say. It was always some set of ideas that get me going."
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The Irascibles

Sterne the only woman in a group of rogue artists who were dubbed "The Irascibles". The term was coined to represent the group consisting of 18 prominent artists of their day, including Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko. These artists were also thought to be a part of the New York School as well as Sterne (although she preferred not to be aligned with any artistic group). "The Irascibles" are the artists who signed a letter protesting conservative group-exhibition juries to the president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They were referred to as The Irascibles in an article featured in an issue of Life where the infamous Nina Leen photograph was published of all members of "The Irascibles".[5]

Legacy

From the very beginning of her outstanding but unknown career, Sterne maintained an individual profile in the face of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and Barnett Newman, all of whom she knew personally. Her independence reflected an immense artistic and personal integrity. The astonishing variety of Sterne's work, spanning from her initial appropriation of surrealist techniques, to her investigation of conceptual painting, and her unprecedented installations in the 1960s, exemplify her adventurous spirit. Yet, the heterogeneity of her styles, and her complete disinterest in the commercially driven art world, have contributed to her exclusion from the canon. When the heroic male narratives of modernism begin to fade, we may, eventually, be ready to recognize this amazingly idiosyncratic body of work. Sterne's art is, indeed, a manifesto in favor of the untamable forces of the mind and the continually changing flux of life.
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Career

Sterne's career did not bloom until she came to New York, even though she had had a few exhibitions in Romania. She showed her work for the first time in a group show, the 11th Exposition du Salon des Surindépendants, in Paris in 1938. Sterne was included in group and independent art shows throughout her entire career.[10]

 Artistic Style

"Hedda Sterne views her widely varied works more as "in flux" than as definitive statements. She has maintained a stubborn independence from styles and trends, including Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism".[11] Hedda never liked to define her art or herself into any group socially or artistically. She never followed a boundary of a certain style. Sterne was a self taught, uninfluenced artist who just worked and made her art as she pleased and how she pleased without having a single concern to try to define her art into any category. "Although she never developed a signature style, Ms. Sterne's explorations have produced a small universe of evocative images".[12]

Artworks

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Awards

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One Woman Shows

  • 1945 - Wakefield Gallery, N.Y.
  • 1945 - Mortimer Brandt Gallery, N.Y.
  • 1947 - Betty Parsons Gallery, '48, '50 '53, '54, '57, '58, '61, '63, '66, '68, '70, '74, '75, '78
  • 1953 - Galleria dell'Obelisco, Rome, '61
  • 1953 - Museo de Arte, SaoPaulo, Brazil
  • 1955 - Arts Club of Chicago
  • 1956 - Vassar College
  • 1956 - Saidenberg Gallery
  • 1968 - Rizzoli Gallery
  • 1971 - Sneed Gallery
  • 1972 - Clinton, N.J.
  • 1973 - Upstairs Gallery, East Hampton
  • 1973 - "Hedda Sterne: Recent Painting", Rush Rhees Gallery, University of Rochester, NY (November 26-December 15).
  • 1975 - "Hedda Sterne: Portraits", Lee Ault & Company, New York (October 15-November 8).
  • 1977 - "Hedda Sterne: Retrospective Exhibition", Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey (April 24-June 26).
  • 1982 - "Hedda Sterne: A Painting in Life", CDS Gallery, New York (March 17-April 12).
  • 1985 - "Hedda Sterne: Forty Years", retrospective, Queens Museum of Art, New York (February 2-April 14).
  • 1993 - "Hedda Sterne", Philippe Briet Gallery, New York (January 23-February 27).
  • 1995 - "Hedda Sterne, New Paintings", CDS Gallery, New York (February 18-March 31).
  • 1998 - "Hedda Sterne: Dessins [1939-1998]," Bibliothèque Municipale, Caen (April 1–30).
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Group Shows (Abbreviated list)

  • 1943 - Art of This Century gallery, N.Y., "Exhibition of 31 Women"
  • 1949 - Whitney Museum Annual, '59, '67
  • 1951 - Los Angeles County Museum
  • 1951 - Third Tokyo International Art Exhibition
  • 1954 - Art Institute of Chicago Annual, '55, '57, '60, '61
  • 1955 - Museum of modern Art
  • 1955 - Corcoran Gallery Annual, Washington, D.C., '56, '58, '63
  • 1955 - Whitney Museum, "New Decade Show"
  • 1955 - Carnegie International, '58, '61, '62, '64
  • 1955 - Rhode Island School of Design, '56
  • 1956 - Venice Biennial
  • 1956 - Smithsonian Institution
  • 1956 - Art Institute of Chicago, "American Artists Paint the City"
  • 1957 - Minnesota Institute of Art, "American Painting"
  • 1958-59 - American Federation of Arts, University of Iowa, "Contemporary American Paintings"
  • 1960 - Mexico City Biennial
  • 1961 - Art Institute of Chicago, "Painting & Sculpture"
  • 1962 - Molton Gallery, London "Four American Painters"
  • 1964 - Cincinnati Art Museum
  • 1964 - Das Kunstwerk, "The Work of Art"
  • 1966 - Heron Museum of Art
  • 1969 - Phillips Collection, Westmoreland Museum
  • 1971 - Finch College, "Artists at Work"
  • 1972 - Guild Hall, East Hampton, "Then & Now"
  • 1971 - Minnesota Museum of Art, "Drawings USA/71"
  • 1971 - Heckscher Museum, Huntington, N.Y.[13]
  • 1983, May 25-June 18, Betty Parsons Gallery. Mino Argento, Jack Youngerman, David Budd, Calvert Coggeshall, Cleve Gray, Lee Hall, Minoru Kawabata, Richard Pousette-Dart, Leon Polk Smith, Hedda Sterne, Ed Zutrau and Sari Dienes (among others).[14]
  • 1994 - Galerie de l'École des Beaux-Arts, Lorient, "Le Temps d'un Dessin", curated by Philippe Briet, drawings by 86 artists living in the United States (March 16-April 6).

Collections

  • Metropolitan Museum
  • Museum of Modern Art
  • Whitney Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Virginia Museum, Richmond
  • University of Illinois, Urbana
  • Rockefeller Institute
  • Detroit Institute of Art
  • Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection
  • Albrecht Gallery, St. Joseph, Mo.
  • Chase Manhattan Bank
  • U.S. Dept. of State
  • Albright-Know Art Gallery, Buffalo
  • University of Nebraska Art Gallery
  • Carnegie Institute
  • Inland Steel Co., Chicago
  • Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
  • Toledo Museum of Art
  • Childe Hassam Purchase
  • Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul

 

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Elena Zuasti, Uruguayan stage actress and comedienne, died from heart failure she was , 75.

Elena Zuasti  was a Uruguayan stage actress and comedienne died from heart failure she was , 75..

(May 18, 1935 – April 8, 2011)

Biography

Zuasti was born in Montevideo in 1935. She graduated twenty years later from the Dramatic Art School and managed to enter the National Comedy, where she remained until 1976. She also taught stage performance for many decades, combining the teaching with her work as an actress. She worked, among other places, at the Faustan Italy Theater Company (in Spanish, Compañía Teatral Italia Fausta) and at Comediantes.com, which belongs to the Uruguay-United States Alliance.[3]
She was one of the first actresses to perform on Uruguayan radio programs, introducing a practice which was unpopular in the country. She also adapted many European plays, some of which included Irish playwright Samuel Beckett's plays.[3]
Zuasti was also a television and film actress. Some of her featured projects include El año del dragón, A cara o cruz and La espera (2002).[3]
She died on April 8, 2011, probably following a heart attack[4] while performing her character Martiniana on stage for the play Barranca abajo «Downhill».[3][5]

 Filmography

  • El ojo en la nuca (2001)
  • La espera (2002)
  • Uruguayos campeones (2004)

 

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Bruce Cowan, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives (1980–1993) died he was , 85.


David Bruce Cowan, AM was an Australian politician and Minister of the Crown in the cabinets of Tom Lewis and Sir Eric Willis died he was , 85.. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for 14 years from 6 November 1965 until his resignation on 29 August 1980 and then for 13 years in the Australian House of Representatives for Lyne for the Country Party of Australia and its successors, the National Country and then National Parties.

(15 January 1926 – 7 April 2011) 

Early life

Bruce Cowan was born in January 1926 in Taree, New South Wales, the son of a farmer, David Cowan, and Bessie Kent. He was educated at Oxley Island Public School and Taree High School and thereafter worked as a farmer, a real estate agent, and stock and station agent.[1]
He became a prominent member of the community, becoming the country real estate agents representative on the New South Wales Council of Auctioneers, the President of Oxley Island Primary Producers Union Branch, Secretary of Oxley Island Drainage Union and as a Member of the Taree Rotary Club for 37 years.[1] He married Laura Bidner on 5 June 1954 and had two daughters, one of whom, Rosemary, married the future Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party and Premier of New South Wales, Barry O'Farrell.[2]

Political career

Cowan's interest in politics began when he joined the Country Party of Australia, becoming a member of the central executive in 1952, 1953 and 1958.[1] He ran for the local government elections and became an Alderman on Taree Municipal Council from 1957 to 1965, later rising to become Deputy Mayor from 1959 to 1965.[3]
In 1965, he contested the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Oxley at a November by-election caused by the death of the sitting member, Les Jordan. He went on to win the seat on preferences with 59.75% of the vote.[4] He went on to retain his seat a further 5 times, each time with a significant majority, until his resignation.[5] For most of his time in Parliament he remained on the backbenches until Premier Askin retired and Tom Lewis became Premier, who appointed him as Minister for Agriculture and Minister for Water Resources on 17 December 1975. He held these portfolios until, Lewis' successor, Sir Eric Willis, lost the election on 14 May 1976.[1]
In opposition he was made the Shadow Minister for Conservation and Shadow Minister for Water Resources from 28 May 1976 to 2 November 1978, when under the new leader, John Mason, he was apponted the Shadow Minister for Local Government and Shadow Minister for Roads. Held this portfolio until he resigned and later also resigned his seat on 29 August 1980.[6]
In 1980, Cowan won the National Country Party preselection for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Lyne when Philip Lucock retired from politics. Cowan faced the Labor candidate and Local Councillor Leslie Brown and the Liberal Party's Milton Morris who was the Member for Maitland in the NSW Legislative Assembly. Although Brown won more primary votes, preferences from Morris were more than enough to ensure that Cowan was elected. Cowan held the seat comfortably until retiring at the 1993 election.[2]
On 26 January 1998, Cowan was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for service to Parliament and the community.[7] On 1 January 2001, he was also awarded the Centenary Medal for service to society through parliament.[8]
Cowan died on 7 April 2011, a week after O'Farrell was elected Premier of New South Wales.[9]

 

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Edward Edwards, American serial killer, died from natural causes he was , 77

Edward Wayne Edwards  was a convicted American serial killer died from natural causes he was , 77. Edwards escaped from jail in Akron, Ohio in 1955 by pushing past a guard and fled across the country, holding up gas stations for money. He never wore a mask because he wanted to be famous. In 1961, he landed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. He eventually was captured in Atlanta - arrested January 20, 1962. Between 1977 and 1996 he murdered 5 people.

(June 1933 – April 7, 2011)

Background

Edwards was born as Edward Wayne Edwards in Akron, Ohio. He lived most of his life, when not incarcerated, in Louisville, Kentucky.

Murders

He murdered 5 people in Wisconsin and Ohio. 2 in 1977, 2 in 1980, and one in 1996.

Arrest and imprisonment

He was arrested in 2009.

Conviction

Death

He died at the Corrections Medical Center of Columbus, Ohio on April 7, 2011.

 

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Hugh FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton, British aristocrat died he was , 92.

Hugh Denis Charles FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton, KG DL was the son of Charles FitzRoy, 10th Duke of Grafton, and his first wife Lady Doreen Maria Josepha Sydney Buxton, second daughter of Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton died he was , 92..

(3 April 1919 – 7 April 2011)

He was born in 1919 in Cape Town, South Africa.[1][2] He was educated at Eton College and at Magdalene College in Cambridge. He was subsequently commissioned into the Grenadier Guards, and for three years from 1943 was Aide-de-camp to the Viceroy of India, Field Marshal Viscount Wavell. On 12 October 1946, he married Ann Fortune Smith, (the current Mistress of the Robes to Queen Elizabeth II). He was a descendant of Charles II of England, through the 1st Duke of Grafton, the illegitimate son of King Charles II by his mistress Barbara Villiers. The FitzRoys are thus a direct but illegitimate line of the House of Stuart.
Grafton devoted much of his life to the conservation and protection of historic buildings. He was chairman and later president of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, and also chaired at various times the Historic Churches Preservation Trust, the Architectural Heritage Fund, the Church of England’s Cathedral Advisory Commission and Sir John Soane's Museum.
He was a member of the Historic Buildings Council from its foundation in 1953, and until he succeeded his father in 1970 he was the National Trust’s administrator for Sussex and Kent, and later East Anglia. He was also vice-chairman of the National Portrait Gallery.
The Duke and Duchess had five children:[1]
  • James Oliver Charles Fitzroy, Earl of Euston (13 December 1947 – 1 October 2009), married Lady Clare Amabel Margaret Kerr, daughter of the 12th Marquess of Lothian and had issue, one son (Henry FitzRoy, 12th Duke of Grafton), and four daughters Louise, Emily, Charlotte and Isobel. The eldest daughter Lady Louise FitzRoy is now married to Charles Vaughan and has a daughter, Cristabel. Lady Emily married Conor Mullan and has a daughter, Constance.
  • Lady Henrietta Fortune Doreen FitzRoy, now Lady Henrietta St. George (born 14 September 1949), married Edward St. George (deceased) and has a son, Henry, and a daughter, Katie.
  • Lady Virginia Mary Elizabeth FitzRoy, now Lady Virginia FitzRoy (born 10 April 1954), married (and divorced) Lord Ralph Kerr, son of Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian; remarried, but has no issue.
  • Lord Charles Patrick Hugh FitzRoy (born 7 January 1957), married Diana Miller-Stirling, and has two sons, Nico and George.
  • Lady (Olivia) Rose Mildred FitzRoy, now Lady Rose Monson (born 1 August 1963), married Guy Monson, an investment funds manager, and has two daughters, Olivia and Leonora.[3]
The Duke of Grafton's home was Euston Hall, near Thetford. He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1976.[4]
He was also President of International Students House, London. He died in 2011 in Euston Hall, Suffolk.[5]

 

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E. J. McGuire, Canadian ice hockey coach and scout, died from cancer he was , 58

Edward John "E. J." McGuire was an ice hockey coach and served as the director of the NHL Central Scouting Bureau.


(1952 – April 7, 2011)

Coaching career

McGuire was an assistant coach in the National Hockey League with the Philadelphia Flyers from 1984 to 1988 and the Chicago Blackhawks from 1988 to 1991. His first head coaching job was in 1991–92 with the Maine Mariners of the AHL, which the team ended out of the playoffs with 23–47–10 record. After being let go from that position, he returned to the NHL, this time with the Ottawa Senators.
After three years in Ottawa, he took his second head coaching position, this time in Canadian major juniors with the Ontario Hockey League's Guelph Storm. With the help of future NHLers, Herberts Vasiļjevs and Dan Cloutier, he led the Storm to the Hamilton Spectator Trophy, as the team with the highest point total in the regular season.[1] Guelph made the playoffs the next year, falling in the semifinals of the OHL Playoffs.
McGuire moved back into professional hockey in 1997, signing on as the head coach with the AHL's Hartford Wolf Pack. After two playoff appearances in two years, he once again stepped back from coaching to focus on scouting. His last coaching position was as an assistant with the Philadelphia Flyers in 2001–02. Afterwards, he began to do more work with the NHL Central Scouting Bureau.

NHL Central scouting

McGuire was the director of NHL Central Scouting from 2005 to 2011. He usually gave his input on the rankings and was a desired interview by NHL media around the rankings time and the draft.

Awards

Death

On April 7, 2011, McGuire died from cancer (Leiomyosarcoma).[2]

Coaching statistics

Through 2001–02 season[3]
Season
Team
League
Position
GP
W
L
T
OTL
Pct
Result
1984–85
Philadelphia Flyers
NHL
Assistant






1985–86
Philadelphia Flyers
NHL
Assistant






1986–87
Philadelphia Flyers
NHL
Assistant






1987–88
Philadelphia Flyers
NHL
Assistant






1988–89
Chicago Blackhawks
NHL
Assistant






1989–90
Chicago Blackhawks
NHL
Assistant






1990–91
Chicago Blackhawks
NHL
Assistant






1991–92
Maine Mariners
AHL
Head
80
23
47
10
0
0.350
No Playoffs
1992–93
Ottawa Senators
NHL
Assistant






1993–94
Ottawa Senators
NHL
Assistant






1994–95
Ottawa Senators
NHL
Assistant






1995–96
Guelph Storm
OHL
Head
66
45
16
5
0
0.720
Lost in Finals
1996–97
Guelph Storm
OHL
Head
66
35
25
6
0
0.576
Lost in Semifinals
1997–98
Hartford Wolf Pack
AHL
Head
80
43
24
12
1
0.619
Lost in Semifinals
1998–99
Hartford Wolf Pack
AHL
Head
80
38
31
5
6
0.544
Lost in Quarterfinals
2001–02
Philadelphia Flyers
NHL
Assistant






 

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