Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foujita abruptly turned his back on all that and took off for Tokyo; he was afraid the Germans would bomb Paris. When the Pacific war came he was conscripted to paint combat pictures at $33.76 a month. Among the most popular was Raid on Pearl Harbor, done from an aerial photograph. He was bombed out of his Tokyo studio; his black bangs turned to silver. At war's end he shipped a show to Manhattan (TIME, Sept. 8, 1947) to raise money for a trip...
Ladies & Animals. The 20 paintings in Foujita's new show had all been done in the past eight months. The most memorable of them were snowy idealizations of naked ladies lying down and animal pictures that brought Arthur Rackham and the fables of La Fontaine to mind. He had been inspired to start both series, said Foujita, by a dream in which animals in human dress had mingled with humans in nothing...
...tight, bright little circle of admirers. By dint of carefully mingled rapture and doubt, they had persuaded him to save twelve canvases for the show. Whether his twelve survivors represented a triumph for Bacon was another question. The paintings did not look like the work of a perfectionist. Done in an elaborately sketchy technique, they were remarkable chiefly for horror. Among them were studies of lumpish, long-necked figures squatting on tabletops, a sinister) male nude disappearing through a curtain, and half a man firing half a machine...
...trustees wanted a young man with ideas, but they hardly expected him to advocate a reversal of everything the university had seemed to stand for. To them, he was simply the extraordinary young man who had been made acting dean of the Yale Law School at 28 and had done so well that Yale made him full dean...
...opportunity presented by the spectacle of the rocking Rank empire to go into the film business itself." Foot wants to establish a state theater circuit and a national motion picture company to finance independent producers and distribute their films. But his idea got scant support. The government has not done very well with its venture into the movie business so far. It had set up the National Film Finance Corp., with capital of $20,000,000 (before devaluation), to finance independents for five years. In 13 months of operation, the corporation has about run through its money, is ready...