Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Women is the effort of a good woman to adjust herself to a social pattern in which she is as much at a disadvantage as a Pekingese out foraging with a pack of Siberian wolves. Mary does succeed in keeping her happiness, but not until she too has done a little clawing...
Over the previous Los Angeles top went Roland McKinney last week with his first exhibition at the Museum of History, Science and Art. Recognizing right off the bat the most lively art of the neighborhood he devoted the whole exhibition to work done on the Southern California Art Project. Under the direction of S. (for Stanton) MacDonald-Wright,* the project has concentrated on outdoor murals befitting the climate. On view were striking murals in many mediums, notably mosaic, petrachrome (dyed concrete in which are mixed little stones of varied color), and terra cotta slabs in low relief (an early Mesopotamian...
...large part of the work discussed as Leonardo's by such 19th-Century critics as Walter Pater was not done by Leonard at all, but by his followers. "But after 50 years of research and stylistic analysis," writes Kenneth Clark, "we have at last reached some sort of general agreement as to which pictures and drawings are really by Leonardo. We must [now again] look at pictures as creations not simply of the human hand, but of the human spirit...
Looking thus at da Vinci's art, Kenneth Clark finds himself most attracted to certain works of precisely the same period as the Madonna with the Cat, done in Leonardo's late twenties. The drawings for the Madonna with the Cat "show, as nothing else in his work, a direct and happy approach to life " As Leonardo's intellectual wrestle with painting went on even his drawings became less spontaneous and his paintings took on a cold quality of mystery...
...Popeyed at the spurt but calculating on still further rises, many a holder of wheat and sugar pulled out of the market, determined to hang on to his investment for still higher prices. As a result many buying orders were unfilled. Hides and lard boomed as they had not done since World War I, copper was up to 10, crude rubber up 2.28 to 18.9, highest since 1937. Next day, permissible limits were hit again. In two days untabulated millions of bushels of wheat changed hands. Brokers saw in World War II a drain down which the U. S. could...