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L to r: Harbor scene, London; Beneath the Bridge, New York City; Cotswolds Valley, England Later, the family moved to Evanston, Illinois, after Van Doren père became editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica's "Great Ideas Today", an annual update "on the applicability of great books to current issues." By then, the teenage artist, his own nascent talent blooming, enrolled in courses at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. But seeking "a good liberal arts education", young Van Doren returned East and matriculated at Columbia, majoring in architecture because "it was a good outlet for my drawing interest. Now forget it," he laughs. "All architectural design is done on computers." Van Doren's studio on West 57th Street, a few doors from Carnegie Hall, is in a building owned by his mother's family since the 1930s. He is only the third artist to occupy that handsomely proportioned, 30-foot high space since the building was founded as an artist's co-op in 1908. The first was Childe Hassam, the Boston-born painter who became famed for his luminous urban scenes and landscapes; the second, Charles Baskerville, a society portraitist, who when not limning the likenesses of nabobs and notables such as Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, Helen Hayes and the Duchess of Windsor, found time early in his career to write and illustrate a column for The HYLAND