Word: canvases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the cold-water flats, walk-up studios, automats and bars where Manhattan's artists live and congregate buzzed disturbing news: the first major defection from the ranks of the abstract expressionists had taken place. Longtime Abstractionist John Ferren, 51, had hung a show of his new paintings in...
Revealing Vignettes. Such was the rambunctious, unpredictable human material that fought and won the bitterest conflict in U.S. history. Catton's book, "The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War," fills in the broad canvas of the four-year struggle on an area of a million square...
"I Am a Glutton." Praise of this magnitude is precisely what a grimly determined woman set out to achieve two centuries ago. When Catherine the Great (1729-96), born a German princess, came to Russia in 1744 to marry Grand Duke Peter (later Peter III), she found the nucleus of...
The home-town crowd that had begun by rooting for Harlem's hero began to cheer the spectacle of a champ going down. "Hit him in his pink Cadillac," screamed a ringsider. Fullmer rained leather just about every place else. In the seventh he clubbed Robinson toward the canvas...
Negro Painter Jacob Lawrence seldom tries to cover a whole subject on one canvas. In 20 years he has turned out nine series of paintings on such subjects as Haitian Emperor Toussaint L'Ouverture, Negro migration, and Abolitionist John Brown. The success of his approach is attested to by...