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...worked as an art teacher and writer until 1947, when he turned to painting full time. His work went unrecognized until his last decade. After shows in prestigious venues led to acceptance by a younger generation of artists, he died in 1970. The earliest works here date from the 1940s. Writhing with organic shapes and bearing titles like The Slaying of Osiris and Pagan Void, they depict nothing recognizable, though there is a floor or horizon for the viewer to hang on to. But in the exhibition's next room, full of canvases from the period when he found...
While some shops carry all kinds of antiques, many specialize. Gerald Katz Antiques on Royal Street concentrates on antique and estate jewelry, according to its president, David Gibson. His offerings range from a pair of "retromodern" American 1940s earrings for $400 to an 1870 French emerald, diamond and gold bracelet for $125,000. Military-history buffs looking for antique toy soldiers can stop into David Dugas' shop, Le Petit Soldier, also located on Royal Street. There you can shell out anywhere from $20 for a 1930s, 3 1/2-in. papier-mache soldier to $4,500 for a 1930s windup German gunboat...
...allure of the event held at the Sheraton Boston, besides its fundraising goals for women in sports through the New England Women’s Fund, was its bringing together of influential female athletes ranging from 1940s professional baseball players to the Olympic medalists of today. Mleczko said she was amazed to be in presence of such pioneers, yet no one from the Harvard ice hockey camp would be shy to classify her as a trail blazer herself...
...time the movement's members had fled Nazi-occupied France for exile in the U.S. in the 1940s, they were reverting to their old automatism, darkening their works, and starting to disperse. Dali, who had married Gala Eluard, was conspicuously excluded from their last hurrah, a big far-out exposition in New York in 1942. Too much of a publicity hound, Breton and the others felt. Dali's earlier The Lugubrious Game, in fact, is so over the top with explicit carnality and scatology that even his fellow Surrealists were shocked...
...diarrhea and respiratory problems. The fatalities came amid growing tension among Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines over Malaysia's new immigration laws, which stipulate that illegal workers face imprisonment and caning. JAPAN Germ War Judges in Tokyo acknowledged for the first time that the Japanese army in the early 1940s waged germ warfare and conducted lethal bio-weapons experiments on people in China. The decision will embarrass the Japanese government, which for many years denied the existence of such experiments. Nonetheless, the Tokyo district court rejected claims for compensation from 180 Chinese plaintiffs who said relatives were killed by Unit...