Word: arte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Phoenix (pop. 370,000) has long smarted under the reproach that it was the largest U.S. city without an art museum of its own. "If you lived in Phoenix and you wanted to go to an art museum with a broad coverage of art," Actor-Collector Vincent Price once pointed out, "you'd have to go as far west as Los Angeles, as far south as Mexico City, as far east as Denver and as far north as Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan." Last week Phoenix proudly opened its brand-new, $500,000 Museum of Art, housing a collection of art...
...Navy during the war, Florsheim discovered in himself an unexpected streak of scientific acumen, developed a radar plane-spotting technique that is still considered basic. But at war's end Florsheim still found himself as far as ever from solving the problems in his art. He buckled down to a back-breaking work schedule in his Chicago studio and exhibited only on occasion...
Happily married, and with an art teaching job to make ends meet, Florsheim still felt and painted misery. His black works found few buyers; he did not mind. "You wouldn't expect someone two years out of college to be made president of General Motors, because you know he wouldn't have the mature experience. Yet we expect this of painters. But it is much harder to be a good painter than president of General Motors.'' Slowly, out of the gloom in Florsheim's studio, more positive and colorful pictures began emerging...
...mixing the colors with wax and applying them cold with a palette knife, contributes to Florsheim's recent rise. So does his increasing ability to suggest deep spaces and complex forms without defining them. More important is the fact that his pictures bring over into the world of art a once dim and obscure night world, newly sparkling...
Phoenix's new urge for culture is part of the national tidal wave that has nearly doubled museum space since World War II, has found art societies and institutes sprouting in towns that once would have been hard pressed to support a framing shop. Phoenix itself started modestly enough when, in 1915, the Woman's Club set up an Art Exhibition Committee to improve the quality of art shown at the Arizona State Fair. Even as late as 1940, Art Patroness Maie Bartlett Heard gave the city nearly a full city block for a civic center, only...