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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, November 26, 1950

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 26, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                In i six some May say that Art in this 2p�hcentury of easy living is dead that the spark that fanned the Genius of the old masters and made them slaves to their Art is no More. Then we hear Ttoe Story of people like Nancy Borregaard talented american artist graduate of the University of Chicago and daughter of an investment broker of Kenilworth 111. Says Nancy Art is my life. Not the kind of Art you sit around and Yap about in cafes. It is a working Art  Art not a talking  in Pur suit of her Art Nancy has spent the Pas three years in Paris studying sculpturing and painting determined to stay until she establishes herself air the Art world. Nancy who is 24, arrived in parisian the summer of 194t with a Chicago Art Institute Fellowship tucked under her Arm. Now Nancy has started to sell some paintings. Many Art critics including the director of the louvre consider her among the outstanding painters of the younger set this fall a Paris gallery is exhibiting her work. Meanwhile she shares a studio apartment on the left Bank with her sister Cecilia a student a place to live and work is How Nancy describes her studio facing notre Dame. Nancy shoulders her ear right above starts i outpost the facade of notre Dame toward the Seine. Her shopping left usually Era bought for a few francs from curb inn the River she finds her inspiration As Soman have before her a Fisherman a boat towers. Feature Section  
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