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...know that Postmaster General Donaldson's hands are tied. The one Postmaster General who has risen from the ranks-a laudable appointment-finds himself harried by the demands of provincial politicians . . . Let us see ... if he will turn to Paul Sample, Norman Rockwell, Grandma Moses, and other greats, to give us designs depicting the American Scene which we love...
With shows opening four nights in a row, the new Broadway season was going strong last week, but the plays were still going sour. The sourest was a short-lived horror, intended as a comedy, called Grandma's Diary. The others...
...Grandma Moses (TIME, Sept. 6), chipper as ever on her 88th birthday, cut a cake decorated with scenes inspired by Grandma Moses' paintings. With a helping hand from Admirer Norman Rockwell, who also paints, after his fashion, she struck a pose that even her most critical dealer would accept as an authentic American primitive...
...lays her pictures flat on the table so she can rest her elbows while she is working. Old coffee cans hold her brushes, and on the floor at her feet is a gallon can of flat white paint for sizing the sawed pieces of masonite she paints on. Grandma does her pictures in batches, like cookies, simply to save paint. "I'll use this blue for the sky in all of them, and then I'll take this green for all the trees. That way your paints...
...Hugh and daughter-in-law Dorothy are bold enough to criticize Grandma's work. Hugh wanted her to leave a recent landscape empty of figures, and she promised she would, "But the next thing I knew 'twas full of people. I had to fill it up. I guess I wanted company, some commotion." Her daughter-in-law says Grandma's interest in painting is what keeps her young. Grandma disagrees. "I don't know as it done any more good than if I went down and cleaned the cellar...