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members of the Fine Arts Institute as they gathered this summer at East Hampton, N.Y. are, from left, Larry Rivers, Philip Guston, Conrad Marca-Relli, Syd Solomon and James Page Six 1 1 Up The Palette 3 A five-month course for advanced painters the first major grants from the Ford Foundawill draw six of the world's leading contempo- tion. He also received a Guggenheim fellowrary painters to Sarasota's New College begin- ship, a Prix de Rome and a grant from the ning in November, as the college's Fine Arts American Academy of Arts and Letters. Institute resumes for a second year. Larry Rivers, also new to the faculty, was a Faculty members this year include Syd Solo- jazz musician who became interested in art in mon, a member of the New College faculty as 1945, studied with Hans Hoffman, and soon well as coordinator of the institute, James demonstrated an individual technique that Brooks and Conrad Marca-Relli, both returning brought him a major show by 1950.

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