Word: 54th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHITNEY-22 West 54th. The big "welcome back" that realism is getting these days must come as a surprise to Edward Hopper, who, at 82, is the best proof that it never went away. For nearly 60 years he has been hammering away at the nerve ends of despair with pictures of lonely trains leaving town, haunted-looking nudes, all-night lunch counters suffocating with silence. A 180-work retrospective. Through...
GEORGE TOOKER-Durlacher, 538 Madison Ave. at 54th. His egg temperas send a warm glow across the room. The viewer enters and meets death peeping over a fresh young maiden's shoulder. From then on he is surrounded by staring figures whose eyes are gutted candles, whose moonfaces are masks-fugitives from feeling and separated by silence. Through...
WHITNEY-22 West 54th. Jack Tworkov, 63, head of Yale's art school and old-line abstract expressionist, gets the retrospective once-over in an exhibition that begins with a 1948 Figure garbed in cubist subtleties, proceeds to the brilliant reds and blues that slash through his 1963 oils. Paintings and drawings. Through...
MUSEUM OF PRIMITIVE ART-15 West 54th. Objects from the Massim region of New Guinea and 60 tempera paintings of primitive sculpture by Mexican Miguel Covarrubias, an important scholar in the field. Through...
WHITNEY-22 West 54th. Jack Tworkov, 63, head of Yale's art school and old-line abstract expressionist, gets the retrospective once-over in an exhibition that begins with a 1948 Figure garbed in cubist subtleties, proceeds to the brilliant reds and blues that slash through his 1963 oils. Seventy paintings, collages, drawings. Through...