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Last week fog swirled over the Black Hills of South Dakota, over the sides of Mount Rushmore, ice formed a dripping glaze over four gigantic stone faces. Mount Rushmore had been finished long ago, but the 14-year chippings from these granite visages made it look unfinished: under their chins the mountainside fell away in a gigantic dribble of scree. And now the figures of these four great U. S. Presidents -Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt-would never be finished by their creator. For the man who had devoted nearly a quarter of his life to the task...
...Wood has long carried a heavy teaching schedule, and loved it. But for an artist who can command $10,000 a canvas (price of Parson Weems' Fable and Sentimental Ballad), teaching at $4,000 a year is a definite sacrifice. Moreover Artist Wood paints slowly, fussing, niggling, spreading glaze after glaze to achieve the hard candylike effect that is his specialty. After a period of financial and marital difficulties (he has been divorced), Grant Wood resolved to take a year off to paint. Last week, a thoroughly happy man, he was producing once more, had enjoyed doing a portrait...
Leverett House's dramatic club presented "Two in the Bush," by William W. Tyng '41, last night. An audience of more than 250 saw the production in the House dining hall. William G. Manson '41, Wallace Hamilton '41, Andrew L. Glaze '42, and Howard W. Young '42 were featured performers...
...years, Albert Ryder completed less than 200 pictures. A recluse who painted from imagination, he lived in a messy Manhattan studio. Working on several pictures at a time, he gave them lustre, depth and mystery through alternate layers of paint and glaze. After laboring 18 years on Macbeth and the Witches, one of the romantically sombre canvases in his present Manhattan show at Knoedler's, he remarked: "I think the sky is getting interesting." Critics agree that Ryder's skies are the most interesting in U. S. painting...
Their bloodshot eyes in dying sockets glaze...