Word: gingham
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...ever an American artist had seemed dead and buried a decade ago, along ! with the movement he had led, that man was surely Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975). True, his huge murals writhing with buckskinned, blue-jeaned and gingham-clad Americans were still to be seen in situ in the Missouri State Capitol, Jefferson City, and the Truman Library, Independence, Mo.; his name might still be invoked in Kansas City, where his latter years were spent; and most students of American art history knew that he had been the teacher (and to no small extent, the substitute father) of Jackson...
Thomas Hart Benton is admirable for his cussedness and independence, but these qualities are no guarantee of good painting, as a 100th-anniversary show in Kansas City proves. Benton's stylized regionalist scenes, writhing with down- home figures in buckskins and gingham, are caricatured and pumped and tarted up until the eye wants to cry uncle...
...contribution of $7 million, Levi Strauss gets to create the official outfit of the class of '86. Gone are black gowns and mortarboards. In their place: for the guys, boot-cut denims, snap-button Western shirts with solid-color yokes and Stetson hats; for the gals, knee-length gingham skirts, Lady Fryes and matching blouses and bandannas. Members of the Harvard Corporation and other honored guests on the dais wear full-length cowhide chaps...
...Gingham Dog: Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School...
...Gingham Dog: Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, Friday and Saturday...