Word: artzybasheffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Artzybasheff Lamented...
...deeply sorry to hear of Boris Artzybasheff's death [July 23]. His artistic integrity was rare and outstanding. He was the finest craftsman of our time, highly imaginative, most original in his concepts. The gap Artzy left may never be filled; he will be long remembered...
...book of drawings As I See (1954), Artzybasheff brilliantly animated various neuroses and suggested wryly that the man of the future would be born with a built-in storage cabinet for platitudes, the woman of tomorrow without a nose ("deleted because it usually shines and often gets in the way"). Always he returned to TIME covers, keeping a measured pace with the era, from sardine-boxed commuters to the heartbreaking Berlin Wall, from mechanical cows to Architect-Dreamer Buckminster Fuller-whose head, under the special Artzybasheff treatment, became a geodesic dome...
...widower for the last decade, Artzybasheff was a gentle, courteous, urbane man, sedate in manner but impassioned in his work. If he sometimes painted nightmares-wars, monstrous weapons, a personified hangover that still haunts many a morning-after-it was only because he was on the side of man. Like most satirists, Boris secretly loved what he seemed to attack. A glimpse of a locomotive walking on crutches or a truck holding its head suggested that, to him, even machines had souls. What was more, they served man. "I would rather watch a thousand-ton dredge dig a canal...
Died. Boris Mikhailovich Artzybasheff, 66, one of the art world's most engaging innovators and TIME cover artist (see Publisher's Letter); of a heart attack; in Lyme, Conn. Born in Czarist Russia, the son of a distinguished novelist-playwright, he fought with the Ukrainian army against the Communists in the civil war that followed the 1917 Revolution, emigrated in 1919 to the U.S. with only 14? in Turkish coins, worked as an engraver and house painter before achieving recognition for his meticulous drawings of humanized machines and mechanized humans. He produced four one-man exhibits in Paris...