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Raymond A. Whyte
Raymond A. Whyte (August 3, 1923April 9, 2003) was a Surrealism, surrealist artist known for Trompe-l'œil, trompe l’oeil, still life, Fantastic art, fantasy paintings, and portraits with surreal elements. He was a popular artist of New York City financial executives and art collectors in the 1950s and 1960s, including B. Gerald Cantor, Malcolm Forbes and R. McLean Stewart. Five of Whyte's works were exhibited in the offices of Cantor Fitzgerald, Cantor-Fitzgerald and destroyed during the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center (1973–2001), World Trade Center. Early life and education Whyte was born in Canmore, Alberta, Canmore, Alberta, Canada. He moved to New York City as a child and attended DeWitt Clinton High School, Dewitt Clinton High School in Lower Manhattan, along with B. Gerald Cantor, who would later become a friend and frequent patron of Whyte's artwork. He began painting at two years old, and as a child would sit in Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Metrop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Raymond is a male given name of Germanic origin. It was borrowed into English from French (older French spellings were Reimund and Raimund, whereas the modern English and French spellings are identical). It originated as the Germanic ᚱᚨᚷᛁᚾᛗᚢᚾᛞ (''Raginmund'') or ᚱᛖᚷᛁᚾᛗᚢᚾᛞ (''Reginmund''). ''Ragin'' ( Gothic) and ''regin'' ( Old German) meant "counsel". The Old High German ''mund'' originally meant "hand", but came to mean "protection". This etymology suggests that the name originated in the Early Middle Ages, possibly from Latin. Alternatively, the name can also be derived from Germanic Hraidmund, the first element being ''Hraid'', possibly meaning "fame" (compare ''Hrod'', found in names such as Robert, Roderick, Rudolph, Roland, Rodney and Roger) and ''mund'' meaning "protector". Despite the German and French origins of the English name, some of its early uses in English documents appear in Latinized form. As a surname, its first recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
