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Designs Selected--Winning designs have been selected from a field of 121 for a new dollar coin which honors the Shoshone Indian Sacajawea. Glenna Goodacre, a Santa Fe, N.M., artist and sculptor, designed the profile of Sacajawea; and Thomas Rogers, a sculptor of Pennsylvania, designed the tail side which bears a soaring eagle. Look for this new coin in circulation by early 2000.

Fellowships Awarded--This year there are 179 recipients of over $6 million in Guggenheim Fellowships. Fellows include painters, sculptors, and photographers, as well as filmmakers, choreographers, scholars and scientists.

Milestones--Saul Steinberg, artist and cartoonist whose drawings appeared in The New Yorker for more than half a century, died in Manhattan at age 84.--Shel Silverstein, the renowned author and illustrator of acclaimed children's books such as A Light in the Attic and Where the Sidewalk Ends, died in Key West at age 66.

Auction Results In--At Christies, a sale of 40 Impressionist and 19C. works of art resulted in a majority of the works selling well above their estimates. Van Gogh's Canal With Washerwomen sold for $19.8 million. A sale of modern art offering 62 works resulted in a record price for Henry Moore's Reclining Figure at $4 million. Meanwhile, at Sotheby's Impressionist auction, Monet's Haystack received the highest bid of the evening at $11.9 million. At the sale of the Whitney Art Collection, Still Life with Curtain, Pitcher and Bowl of Fruit by Cezanne received the fourth-highest price ever for a work of art sold at auction--$60.5 million.

Pavilion Exhibits--The U.S. Pavilion at the 1999 Venice Biennale opens on June 12 with an exhibition of work by the installation and performance artist Ann Hamilton.

Painting Slashed--A Dutch psychiatric patient has been returned to a clinic after ripping a huge circular hole in the center of Nude in Front of the Garden by Picasso in Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art. Because of the bluntness of the knife used, restoration will be difficult.

Exhibitions

Washington, D.C.--The Phillips Collection - Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things brings together 69 works, including paintings and works on paper from 1908 to 1963 drawn from the artist's major series of fruit, leaves, flowers, shells, bones, crosses, and doors. Through July 18.

Los Angeles--The Getty Center - Dosso Dossi, Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara is the first exhibition ever devoted to Dosso Dossi, one of the most creative and engaging Italian painters of the Renaissance. It brings together nearly 60 of his best works from public and private collections in Europe and America. Through July 11.

Denver--Museum of Contemporary Art - New New Painters presents the work of eleven painters who have been most deeply involved with exploring the possibilities of the new acrylic paints and additives, which have undergone an extraordinary technical development during the last fifteen years. Through July 3.

June Birthdays

1 Red Grooms

7 Paul Gauguin

8 Frank Lloyd Wright

12 Annie Albers

21 Henry Tanner

25 Antonio Gaudi