Word: carls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest contribution of the Brooklyn show, however, was its evidence of Gauguin's ceaseless experimenting, tireless ingenuity. Visitors could see how the artist became dissatisfied with his woodcuts after making a few impressions, altered details that displeased him, strengthened effects that he liked. Curator of prints, Carl O. Schneiwind, who assembled the show and is revising the Guérin catalogue of Gauguin's prints, believes that as Gauguin's rich paintings resemble tapestry, his woodcuts resemble murals. To prove it he made a photographic enlargement of Gauguin's biggest woodcut, dramatized his thesis that Gauguin...
...Soyer's indulgent School Girls and Robert Philipp's Dust to Dust, which won honorable mention at the Carnegie International last autumn (TIME, Oct. 25), showing bowed, blackrobed, firmly painted figures before an open grave, against a dull rainscape. There was no outstanding piece of sculpture like Carl Hallsthammar's Venus in Red Cherry of last year, but the exhibition introduced the work of a promising, 23-year-old, self-taught Syrian of New Orleans, Leon Koury, with a competent Negro figure, Compress Worker...
This day all three tires of the new-fangled tricycle, or nosewheel, landing gear were firm.† DC-4 glistened in the sun, its four 1.400 horsepower motors thumping idly. In climbed Pilot Carl Cover. The great ship surged forward, took off in less than twelve seconds. On the ground, Douglas craftsmen threw their hats in the air, slapped each other on the back. In the air DC-4 stayed for an hour and a half, then landed gently where it had started...
Hospitalized in New York, Administrator Hopkins did not answer either Mr. Christgau or his charges. New Mexico's Democratic Senator Carl A. Hatch urged the Christgau ouster as another argument for an amendment to the Lend-Spend Bill (see p. 11) to bar WPA personnel from "interfering with an election or affecting the results thereof...
...Russia, Carl Carlson, 56, Swedish-born, U. S.-naturalized valet to U. S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, learned over the radio that he had won first prize ($150,000) in the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes. Meanwhile, Mr. Davies was unexpectedly received by Joseph Stalin, whom he had never met in his year and a half in Moscow, and with whom he chatted for two hours...