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...dealer and founder of the prestigious Midtown Galleries; of complications following a heart attack; in Manhattan. Starting in 1932, Gruskin earned a reputation as a vigorous champion of contemporary American art; his one-man shows were the launching points for such prominent artists as William Palmer, Isabel Bishop, Paul Cadmus, Arline Wingate and Herbert Ferber...
Delightful Cow Paths. As with any authentic primitive painter, Blair's first subject was the farm-and the oldtime farm at that. Blair had all the credentials. Back in 1888, when Blair was born, his father ran the local Grange store in Cadmus, Kans. As a child he earned 50? a day by working from sunup to sundown in the surrounding fields. He thought he hated it-the boredom, the ignorance, the poverty. "A cow path is delightful if you are out for a stroll, but not if you are trying to get somewhere," he observed later...
...Mayer has assembled a truly magnificent little cast, distinguished by an incredible variety of voices. Foremost among the voices is that of Yolande Bevan, who lifts the chorus to her own extraordinary level, but not much less distinctive are the speaking styles of Edward Finnegan and Donald Marye, as Cadmus and Teiresias. The best performance of the lot, however, has to be that by Patricia Cutts, who bravely circumvents the sort of theatrics to be expected in a woman who has killed her son and partaken of his remains...
More Faith. The "mother and father" ?Joseph Kennedy, 79, long partially paralyzed by a stroke, and Rose, 77, who has survived sorrow as intense as that meted out by the gods to the houses of Cadmus and Atreus. Of their nine children, they have buried four: Joe Jr., who died in World War II; Kathleen, who perished in a 1948 plane crash; John, and now Bobby, at the age of 42. Rosemary, 48, has been a lifelong victim of mental retardation. Ted, now the only remaining son, nearly died in a 1964 plane accident. While he was recovering Bobby...
PAINTING AND DRAWING THE NUDE, PART I: THE MALE-Banfer, 23 East 67th. Adam as depicted by 23 U.S. artists. Besides an assortment of mundane classical studies there are some forceful skinscapes: Jacob Landau's unbound Prometheus agonized by fire and trance; Paul Cadmus' eerie, restive painting, The Shower; John Fenton's intimations of mortality in Death of a Bullfighter. Through...