Word: 57th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news on Manhattan's art-marketing 57th Street last week was a single picture. It had taken three years of planning and three more years of painting. Peter Blume's 6-ft.-wide canvas, which he called The Rock, was a complex allegory of building and decay, done with photographic, Technicolored precision...
...schools. Knowing the assembly-line dreariness of most U.S. art education (which grinds out armies of would-be painters each year), Hayes himself had been surprised by the result-a show that was technically expert, sparkling with real talent and livelier than most on Manhattan's art-merchandising 57th Street...
Painter Morris Graves is a special pet of Manhattan's artiest art lovers, but he is careful to keep 3,000 miles between himself and their cocktail parties. His strange paintings, completely uninfluenced by the fads of 57th Street, look as if they might have been done by a lama in the peaks of Tibet. Graves has done little to dispel that illusion. When his temperas were first shown and acclaimed at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (TIME, Feb. 2, 1942), critics and writers excitedly wired Seattle for information about him. The tall, cadaverous recluse sent them...
...born in Ramsgate, England, in 1881. He is survived by his wife, with whom he celebrated his 57th wedding anniversary last December 16; his son, Thomas North Whitehead, Director of the Graduate Management Training Program at Radcliffe and member of the Faculty of Business Administration; his daughter, Miss Jessie Mario Whitehead; three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren...
Nearly 3,000 painters had heeded the tinkle of Pepsi's cash register. Of their entries, 159 went on display in Manhattan's National Academy of Design last week. The paintings were mostly mediocre landscapes and city scenes. Most of the exhibiting artists were unknown on 57th Street (Manhattan's Gallery Row), so their almost unfailing competence, learned in the country's burgeoning art schools, came as a slight shock to complacent Manhattanites...