Guess the Artist

Your clues this week are:

• The artist was American, active in the first third of the 20th-century, and had a knack for making friends with people who would later offer career advice, assistance, and patronage. The last part was purely accidental.
• Perhaps due to extended trips to Paris during 1906-07 (think: Fauvism, Expressionism, and Luminism) and 1912-14 (think: Cubism, Cubism, and Cubism), the artist was an early adopter of Modernism in the US.
• Never in robust health, the artist was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when close to 40 years old. Though the metabolic disease would eventually win, the artist provided valuable scientific data for a decade by becoming one of the first people to undergo daily insulin injections.

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• Apropos of nothing artistic, the eggplant seen here is your basic Purple Beauty. With which vegetable is flashy Miss Purple paired, my fellow gardening gastronomes? I'm looking for its varietal name.

Please email me your guesses over the coming week. I'll post the winner and correct answer with next week's guessing game. Good luck!

Last Week's Answer:

The clues last week pointed straight towards Aleksandr Deyneka (Russian, 1899-1969), a true "party" animal. We were looking at The Race (1932-33), which gives one the impressionism that the USSR was peopled with tall, muscular, blond men from whom tall, muscular women could choose worthy mates. Or something like that. Steve, who owns an iPad and may remember the Kursk explosion in the Barents Sea, was our timely winner. Поздравляю, Steve, and спасибо to all who participated!