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...most improbably successful tunesmith in the U.S. last week was a genial, buckskin-fringed character out of Timbo, Ark. (pop. 100) named Jimmie Driftwood. Six Driftwood royalty-winners-Soldier's Joy, Battle of Kookamonga, Tennessee Stud, Sal's Got a Sugar Lip, The Battle of New Orleans, Sailor Man-were riding the sales charts of pop or country-and-western tunes; in other versions most of them are sung and strummed by Driftwood himself...
...commuted to the cabin on weekends, when he gave the children their music lessons. Between schooling and chores, the children were introduced to the "liberal education" in the bright, challenging wilderness outside their cabin door. They rode horses, fished, watched wild animals, learned names of plants and trees, collected driftwood...
...misty, mystic haze of blue light stands a forest of eerie, black wooden shapes. They are made of orange crates, piano ornaments, driftwood, barrel tops and shipwreck planks, glued, twisted, nailed or pushed together. This is The Moon Garden + One, one of the most unusual exhibitions of sculpture in many a moon, on view this week at Manhattan's Grand Central Moderns Gallery...
...parents when she was four, settled with them in Rockland, Me., where the interlocking arms of heavy timber and the gentle twigs of rocky bush excited her imagination. While her family made a good living out of lumber, her young hands made bits of her imaginary universe out of driftwood and scraps. She moved into New York at 18, studied under Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League, then went to Germany, where she worked (in 1931) with Painter Hans Hofmann. In 1940 Karl Nierendorf (who championed Paul Klee in the U.S.) discovered her, staged her first one-woman...
Today Sculptress Nevelson lives in a three-story house in Manhattan's East 30s, her works scattered among tons of boards, planks, branches and sawdust. She finds her own driftwood along the Maine coast, does most of the work herself, only occasionally hiring a carpenter. When her house began to feel crowded not long ago, she put all her furniture out onto the sidewalk, keeping only a couch, a table and three chairs. "I needed the room," she says, "because I plan my shows as an ensemble, as one work. Everything has to fit together, to flow without effort...