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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...notable weakness of most contemporary art has been the decline in artistic craftsmanship. Among the exceptions to the rule is a lanky Santa Fe potter named Warren Gilbertson, 42, who combines the artist's soaring imagination with the craftsman's practical knowledge of his tools. Last week he was demonstrating the fact anew with a series of glowing vases, cups and bowls which looked extraordinarily like China's classic Sung dynasty Chien-yao ware (better known by its Japanese name: Temmoku...
Faster Freight. A new, high-speed Santa Fe train, designed for better competition with truckers in hauling fresh fruit from the West Coast, set a new record for California-to-Chicago freight trains on its maiden run last week. Train No. 62 hauled 18 refrigerated carloads of American Beauty plums to McCook, Ill. in 61½ hours, compared to the average truck time of about 96 hours...
With the help of Japanese-born Artist Chuzo Tamotzu, she was holding two art exhibits 6,000 miles apart. For Santa Fe, the show was an eye-opener. The U.S. kids had sent Hiroshima 125 youthfully American scenes: pictures of horses, cowboys, mesas, adobe huts decorated with strings of red chili peppers. The 125 pictures they got in return were startling, not because they were different, but because they were remarkably similar in style. They were amazingly modern and well done, showed only the faintest trace of traditional Oriental art. Instead of stylized cherry trees and dainty bridges, Hiroshima...
...effect on Santa Fe's youngsters was electric. They gaped at the Japanese grade-scholars' craftsmanship, were surprised at how much the kids in the pictures looked like themselves. "Why, these don't seem foreign at all," said one nine-year-old. "They look like my friends." But they did wonder why there were no blond children in Japan, and wished they could read the Japanese writing in the pictures...
...Santa Fe's adults liked the show, too, and plans were made to send the show to Los Alamos and Denver next. Back in their classrooms, Supervisor Anderson's pupils were hard at work on more pictures to swap with faraway children-in North Carolina, India and the Philippines...