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...Stuart Davis, 61, started as a pupil of Robert Henri, founder of the famed "Ashcan School." While obeying Henri's injunction to go out and paint what he saw on the streets, Davis found that his eye was particularly taken by the hard, jazzy, garish, kaleidoscopic aspects of city life. The Armory Show of 1913, in which modern European art first burst upon America, introduced Davis to abstractionism, and in 1927 he clamped onto it for good. He nailed an eggbeater, a rubber glove and an electric fan to a table and painted them over and over. "Through this...
...through Atlanta one night last week, whooping up and down Peachtree Street, pushing aside troopers who tried to bar their way, and generally raising hell. At the State Capitol, the boys pulled fire hoses from their racks, adorned the sculpt head of Civil War Hero John Gordon with an ashcan. A dozen effigies of Governor Marvin Griffin were hanged and burned during the students' march, which culminated in a 2 a.m. riot in front of the governor's mansion...
...began drinking heavily, and preferred what he called his "ashcan life" and "craggy characters" to the Washington social round...
...aircraft has been flying, rather tentatively, at Niagara Falls, N.Y. over the past few weeks. It looks like a light private plane with a bulky ashcan suspended under each wing, and helicopter skids instead of wheels. Last week Bell Aircraft Corp. told how it works. It is a jet-powered VTOL (vertical take-off and landing), and Bell believes that from it will develop jet fighters and transports that can rise like helicopters from a small patch of ground, then turn themselves into normal-flying airplanes...
...Benjamin West (first honorary member) to the Maine water-colors of the late (1953) John Marin. Included were the works of such figures as George Caleb Bingham, Mary Cassatt (only U.S. painter of the French impressionist movement), the meticulous realist William Harnett, and five artists of the famed "Ashcan School" of realism-Robert Henri, George Luks, Everett Shinn, John Sloan and William Glackens. Before the exhibition was under way, the U.S. Information Agency began making plans to send part of the collection abroad to show Europeans what has been accomplished by one American art school...