Word: 57th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Italy's annual invasion of Manhattan's art galleries was under way last week, and some of the early arrivals were a change from what the U.S. had come to expect. On view at one 57th Street gallery were 14 pleasantly light and digestible paintings by three modern artists which were as different from the familiar abstractions as red wine from white. The three...
...Boston, delegates to the 57th triennial convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church found the early days of their two-week session dominated by a delicate problem: Should women be allowed to sit as delegates in the church's House of Deputies? A commission assigned to study the matter said yes. Among other things, the commission noted that the Church of England has admitted women as lay delegates for many years. But the motion ran into trouble...
...57th Variety...
...director (and partner) of Manhattan's booming Young & Rubicam, and hit out for the Maryland horse country. Scoffing friends predicted that he would soon be back at the old Manhattan treadmill. He was back last week, but not on a treadmill: a big 57th Street gallery was showing 31 of Vaughn Flannery's coolly colored paintings of horses and racing scenes, and mighty nice they were...
Manhattan's waning art season put forth a bright, belated bloom last week-a 57th Street show of sophisticated, slaphappy paintings by Writer-Illustrator Ludwig Bemelmans, 53. Done mostly with gouache, "because it comes in charming little French jars and doesn't smell," they spoofed and also celebrated the drifting, uppercrust, good-time world that Bemelmans inhabits. Their style mingled childlike cheer and simplicity with penknife stabs of caricature...