Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author Dobie's book is saturated with the lore of the range, the brush and the border country. It is the final word on its subject, and very nearly one of those classic studies that seem to sum up everything that has been written before it. A lack of focus weakens it, a discursiveness, and an argumentative mood about the anti-coyote policy in Washington. But at its best, it reads the way oldtimers talk, with a fine earthy mixture of courtesy and superstition, wisdom and independence...
Like Cranach, Titian had taken his pick in the Greek Pantheon, but had added a sumptuousness of his own. His Venus and the Lute Player made the goddess look more human than divine, for his brush managed to suggest the blood beneath the opalescent skin and to impart a warmth that no marble could match. Compared with Titian's, even such latter-day Technicolor Venuses as Lana Turner seemed somewhat anemic...
...attacks on Laski and on "Harvard Reds" aren't even quarter-truths; they are mere offhand slander, liberally applied with a brush which has been carefully constructed by Thomas, Mundt, and Co. Unless people start thinking about the manufacturers before swinging such paintbrushes, what now looks like ridiculous name calling may gain the stature of truth in the public mind. And that would put us right back on the end of that springboard, teetering...
Manhattan gallerygoers were treated to some surprising new views of their city last week. In an exhibition of brush drawings and watercolors by a bouncy little Chinese-American artist named Dong Kingman, they found a strange but somehow convincing version of the place. Kingman had painted bits of the town from Central Park to the Battery, making most of his sketches on Sundays and working from half-concealed positions behind garbage cans and in doorways so as not to attract attention. "Sometimes a crowd would gather anyway," Kingman says, "and I'd have to drive them away by singing...
...went to work in a California overall factory. When the overall business palled, he did a hitch as a houseboy and another in a Chinese restaurant. Finally the WPA came along and gave him a chance to paint fulltime, started him toward becoming a bang-up success with his brush (TIME, Sept. 3, 1945). Since his discharge from the Army, where he served as a private in the OSS in Washington, he has been living in Brooklyn and teaching at Columbia and Hunter College...