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Last week a Park retrospective opened at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D C having originated at Manhattan's Staempfli Gallery and traveled to Boston and Nashville. Still ahead on its schedule -and new stops may be added-are the Oakland (Calif.) Art Museum, the University of Minnesota Gallery and the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois. The show samples Park's early figurative works, his Picasso period, and finally the later paintings that have become his hallmark (see color}. It is no fault of the organizers that, save for one, the abstractions are absent...
...refer to his ever-increasing stock of unsold canvases as his "Dark Room Collection." Since his death in 1953. admirers have been trying to focus more light on the dark room. Their efforts came to a climax last week with the opening of a major Marin retrospective at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.* Of the 91 paintings on display, more than a third are oils, a medium in which the famed watercolorist was fully at home...
...head of the retail of the Chamber of Commerce, Corcoran declared that the proposal "would help free parking spaces presently being abused." Supporting him were Harding U. Greene (Citizens Advisory Committee), Warren Dillon (Cambridge Civic Association), Fire Chief Vincent P. Galvin, and Ralph J. Dunphy, Commissioner of Public Works...
With the exception of one redundant brother (Jack, a "bold lad 10 years old"), Disney retains the whole famdamily (John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran) and most of the menagerie too-one of his press releases proudly points out that the film contains "some 150 myriad animals.'' But except for the shipwreck and the tree house and one or two minor incidents, he abandons the book's plot and substitutes more photogenic, made-in-Hollywood situations...
PEDDLING OF INFLUENCE by Thomas G. ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran, 60, onetime New Dealer turned wheedler for Tennessee Gas Transmission Co., was not out of line, ruled congressional committee, after investigating Corcoran's private pleas to FPC commissioners to grant a Tennessee subsidiary a higher return in a rate case (TIME, May 23). Committee's Republican minority dissented, called the findings "the most shocking political whitewash in years...