Word: goghs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Philco TV Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC-TV). Everett Sloane in Vincent Van Gogh...
...addition to a staff of 150 artists, the company uses the works of such diverse painters as Vincent van Gogh, Norman Rockwell, Salvador Dali, Grandma Moses (one of the best sellers), and the winners of a $28,000 international contest (TIME, March 21). For the changeable public, Hallmark keeps plenty of new cards up its sleeve. One thing that doesn't worry Joyce Hall is a recession. In bad times, says he, people send greeting cards instead of presents...
...traveling art shows prepared to hit the road leaving broken records behind them. At Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum the Van Gogh exhibition (TIME, Oct. 31) closed last week after a three-month stand. The paintings of the lonely Dutchman who sold only two canvases in his lifetime had set an alltime Met record (302,553 at 50? a head) for a single exhibition...
Many of the winning amateurs were old hands. A taxi driver recalled that as a child he had drawn pictures of ballplayers instead of playing ball. A more recent convert had been persuaded to try after reading Irving Stone's story of Vincent van Gogh, Lust for Life, 'and W. Somerset Maugham's version of the life of Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence. Another novice confessed that his wife had given him a paintbox to keep him home nights. Most contestants had a contrary reason for painting: escape...