A show twice this size would do little enough to justice to de Kooning's seven-decade career, which ended in 1990, when dementia stopped his hand.

But on one count everyone agrees: it was the single most grandiose gesture in Wright's grandiose seven-decade career.

Peggy Converse, a character actress whose seven-decade career in show business included films, television and more than 100 roles in more than 1,000 theaters, died on March 2 at her home in Los Angeles.

Over his nearly seven-decade career, Mr. Cronbach worked in styles both representational and abstract and specialized in public commissions.

During his seven-decade career, Odysseas conducted over one hundred orchestras from different continents.

He drew throughout his seven-decade career, filling pocket-size sketchbooks when he was a truculent teenager and executing pastel drawings of seascapes when he was in his 20s.

This exhibition presents 100 paintings made over the course of his seven-decade career in Mexico City, New York and Paris.

This artist's drawings have been steadily outstanding throughout the ups and downs of her three-dimensional work, and across a seven-decade career that has linked her to Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, feminist art and Postminimalism.

But Mr. Menuhin's nearly seven-decade career as a violinist and conductor is only one strand of this two-hour documentary by Tony Palmer, and not the strand that makes the deepest impression.

During a seven-decade career in which he produced more than 3,000 works, Rockwell spent the last 25 years of his life in Stockbridge, immortalizing the town's picturesque New England setting and several of its residents.