Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wyeth portrait of Christina took second prize at last month's Carnegie Exhibition (TIME, Oct. 25). "It looks sort of photographic," Wyeth admits. "I guess they all do, but the fact is I never paint from nature. I make careful sketches and then change everything around. For instance the field in Christina's World is not really that large, but I felt it that way. Ever since I was a small kid I felt it was big. For a month and a half I built the ground up, to make it come toward you, that surge of earth...
...Wyeth. ("Ever since I was twelve, nothing has meant anything to me except painting.") But while his father brought knights, pirates and Scottish chiefs to life, illustrating books like Treasure Island and the Boys' King Arthur, young Andrew became more & more fascinated with illustrating the little universe around him-at Chadds Ford, Pa., where he was born, and down east in Maine, where the family spent its summers. He lives now with his wife and two sons within a mile of his Pennsylvania birthplace...
...tramp around there day after day," he says, "looking for something to paint. Mood is what I'm after. I go through hell to get a good subject, but once I do I'm happy because it's always something I feel close...
Thomson: Four Saints in Three Acts (soloists, chorus and orchestra conducted by Virgil Thomson; Victor, 10 sides). A condensed version of the Virgil Thomson-Gertrude Stein collaboration. Amusing the first time around, but hardly worth repeated playings. Performance and recording: good...
...heat, a vastly complicated subject. Mere control of temperature and humidity is not enough: the air must have the proper amount of movement. The walls of the room must be at the right temperature. A person can have chills in a room with cold walls, even though the air around him is comfortably warm...