Word: cadmus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think art should be shocking, necessarily," says Painter Paul Cadmus, "but it should be disturbing." Cadmus, who combines a steady hand with a jaundiced eye, had never failed to disturb people and earn a living by it, but his first exhibition of paintings in twelve years, which opened in a Manhattan gallery last week, made his earlier works seem almost sissified...
...started with the lacy, architectural etchings of such classicists as Connecticut's John Taylor Arms and Philadelphia's Joseph Pennell. the gloomy, satirical lithographs of such old warhorses as Manhattan's George Bellows, ended with samples by big-city artists like Adolf Dehn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Paul Cadmus, Midwestern and Southern regionalists like Grant Wood, Thomas Benton and John McGrady, experimentalists like Stuart Davis and Federico Castellon...
...Cadmus, Prince of Phoenicia, slew a dragon with Athene's help: its teeth, when sown, sprang from the earth as fully armed soldiers...
...ballet troupe that ever invaded South America. Tall, truculent Lincoln Kirstein, reviving his barnstorming Ballet Caravan, had assembled a company of 52, 60 crates of scenery and costumes, a repertory of 14 ballets. On opening night, Rio saw Estacion Gasolinera (by Choregrapher Lew Christenson, Composer Virgil Thomson, Painter Paul Cadmus), which the U.S. knew as Filling Station...
Married. Lincoln Edward Kirstein, 33, tall, tense esthete, director of Manhattan's School of the American Ballet; and Fidelma Cadmus, 33, sister of Sailor-&-Floozy Painter Paul Cadmus; in Manhattan...