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magazine. His tastes in art were wide-ranging, and he was among the few critics of the time who understood the persistence of figurative painting in the era of abstraction, championing painters such as
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magazine as the art editor, where he remained until 1960. He knew most artists who lived in New York during his tenure at Time, and also had encounters with artists when he lived abroad, including
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written by Eliot's wife and published in 2007). In 1964 the family moved to Rome, Italy, and later to Sussex, England where Eliot lived until 1974. In 1975 he received a fellowship from the
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