Word: canvases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ONE morning last week a group of West German journalists visiting TIME were surprised to meet in the corridors a file of men, like bearers for an African safari, carrying large canvas-covered crates. As the journalists watched, the men opened the crates, hauled out floodlights and began to unreel...
¶ Carl ("Bobo") Olson (169 Ibs.), middleweight champion of the world, bounced the former Light-Heavyweight Champion Joey Maxim (175 Ibs.) off the canvas of San Francisco's Cow Palace and earned a unanimous decision. Long a competent boxer, Bobo likes to think that he has the heft and...
...Barcelona. It was an event the family is not likely to forget. Uncle Pablo rode into town with the Diaghilev Ballet Russe, promptly abducted Ballet Dancer Olga Koklova (whom he later married), set up house in Barcelona's Hotel Rancini. In a holiday mood, Picasso began turning out canvases in a bewildering variety of styles: a balcony view of Barcelona's Christopher Columbus column; a painting of a Spanish dancer lush enough to hang in a bullfighter's dressing room. Well into his cubist period at the time...
SOME painters have all the luck. They get paid for doing what tourists pay through the nose to do: seeing and remembering new things. Painter Robert Sivard, 40, has a blockful of Paris shops and people firmly on canvas as well as in memory; his pictures, which went on view...
For Frenchmen expecting to touch familiar ground with the "real art," the 108 paintings and 22 sculptures by 67 U.S. artists was a bewildering sea of unknown names and works. Small groups, picking favorites, quickly formed in front of Ben Shahn's Squash Court and U.S. Primitive Joseph Pickett...