Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign ports. Entitled Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam, it was painted in 1758 by a footloose portraitist named John Greenwood (who put himself in the picture, holding a candle at the door), and was recently bought by the City Art Museum of St. Louis for $8,500. Done in the days when most U.S. painters contented themselves with fashioning idealized portraits of the rich, it is, crowed Museum Director Perry T. Rathbone, "virtually the only painting by an American artist depicting everyday life in the 18th Century...
Every blade of grass in the picture is separately painted. "Just because something is tightly done doesn't mean anything," Wyeth says, "but I feel that the more you get into the textures of things, the less you have to clutter up the composition with a lot of props. When you lose simplicity you lose drama, and drama is what interests me. I guess I'm just an illustrator at heart...
Planned Heat. The air conditions in a house, office or factory must suit the activities of the people who live or work there. The more physical work that is done, the more heat the body develops. A secretary or a housewife mending socks wants warmer air than is needed by a basketball player or a steelworker. Modern architects measure the requirements of each activity and devise a heat environment...
Miss Sitwell's earlier poems were hardly congenial to U.S. tastes. One critic thought of them as an artificial enchanted garden in which a rather nervous and overbred young lady trembled in a "trance of sensuous receptivity." Though brilliantly done, her first poems were excessively, lushly contrived. But as her work developed, another Edith Sitwell emerged, sensitive to human waste and moral agonies. In a play fragment which suggests something of Greek tragedy, she wrote such grandly simple lines as these...
Singing was best during the many duets and quartets. Particularly well done was one a cappella quartet in the second act, which at all times was in perfect pitch, with each voice delicately balanced...