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...moved last week through the four galleries of the U. S. building, gravely inspected one room full of the tenuous, romantic nudes of the late great Arthur B. Davies, stood silent in front of George Wesley Bellows' famed Dempsey-Firpo Fight. Finally she entered a gallery of Amerindian primitive art chosen by John Sloan. There she listened attentively while fluttering Mrs. Garrett delivered a lecture on the differences between the Hopis of Arizona and the Zunis of New Mexico, the relative merits of such artists as Ma-Pe-We, Awa Tsireh, Oqua Pi, and that talented squaw, plump Quah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hopis & Zunis in Venice | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...Poet Jeffers has already shown how, against the desert western American landscape, the characters of his imagination, impelled by Greekish lusts, drizzle themselves away. In Thurso's Landing he writes his most native American, least Greekish tragedy, leaving sexual perversion almost entirely out. Its terrors are more Amerindian than Greek ?the terrors of a diminishing race under Nature's relentlessly observant, semi conscious eye. The outlines of the Amer ican continent and of its troubled in habitants, grow colder and clearer under Poet Jeffers' western-starry light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Harrowed Marrow | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...Amerindian Black Elk was born in 1863, in time to see and take part in much of the fighting that drove his race off the free earth into government reservations to decay. Treaty after treaty the Indians drew up with the Wasichus (white men) who took what land they wanted, promised the rest should remain Indian "as long as grass should grow and water flow. You can see that it is not the grass and the water that have forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heavenly Blues | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...chief grocery store, the new building is decorated throughout with a grain motif by Architects John Auger Holabird and John Wellborn Root. The entrance grill bristles with fuzzy sheaves and kernels, grain garnishes the elevator doors, flanking the clock outside stand a wheat-raising Egyptian and a corn-fed Amerindian. Ripe wheat heads were thrust into the hands of visitors on the opening day as they peeped into the main trading floor, 113 ft. x 163 ft., where business was going on as usual in the wheat pit (38 ft. across) and nearby corn, oat, rye pits. Visitors gaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ceres in Chicago | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

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