1.   And with each new pastel the oil painters became more fearful that Maurice Quentin de La Tour would put them all out of business.

2.   A native of New York, Kollar-Kotelly is a daughter of an environmental engineer and an oil painter.

3.   De Kooning spent his long career as an oil painter ricocheting from figure to landscape, abstraction back to figure again.

4.   Pastels were widely dismissed as superficial by the oil painters, but the effects this artist achieved were so powerful that the oil men were forced to take notice.

5.   An oil painter who specialized in landscapes, he developed an urge for more three-dimensional expression and found what he needed right at his feet.