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Grant Wood is an earthy, peaceable Iowan who manages to stir up many an artistic rumpus. His American Gothic (1930), portrait of a bleak, bald Iowa farmer and his tight-lipped daughter, at once became chief icon of the past decade's resurgent move to "paint American." His Daughters of Revolution (1932), three prim, grim, self-important matrons, scandalized the D. A. R. Lately Artist Wood has spent more time teaching and making lithographs than he has at his easel...
...Grant Wood spent months boning up on costumes, background for Parson Weems' Fable, then did a full-scale preliminary drawing of it. Last November he started work on the final canvas, for six weeks worked 16 hours a day to finish it. Priced at around $10,000 (American Gothic sold for $300 in 1930), it is first of a projected Wood series on U. S. legends...
...stood represented only a small part of the detailed workmanship and great wealth that had been poured into Hungary's impressive Houses of Parliament. Standing on the Rudolph Quay in Pest (i.e., on the left bank of the Danube, the flat half of Budapest), this 19th-Century, Gothic-style building ranks as one of the largest legislative palaces of the world. It cost $8,000,000, covers four-and-one-half acres, has a dome 315 feet high. It was intended, when built, to show Hungary's importance, but after World War I, which reduced Hungary...
...high-vaulted, dark-paneled, Victorian-Gothic gloom of King's Bench Court No. 5 last week, heavily bewigged Honorable Mr. Justice Tucker opened in his kindly, dawdling fashion the most sensational trial London has seen since World War II broke: "Her Serene Highness Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst versus Viscount Rothermere...
...Gothic Holy Name Cathedral, on a silver and black pall, garbed in pontifical vestments of purple and white, lay all that was mortal of George William Cardinal Mundelein, late Archbishop of Chicago. For three long days last week, in long slow lines, ten times ten times ten thousand mourners shuffled past his bier. When 20 archbishops, 70 bishops, countless priests and monsignori marched down Michigan Boulevard in the Cardinal's funeral procession, ten times ten times ten thousand mourners lined the route. These citizens could count themselves honorary pallbearers of Cardinal Mundelein. For, instead of designating a handful...