Word: graphic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opening punctually, as many an earlier planned exhibit did not, American Art Today turned out to be the biggest show of its kind ever put on. From some 25,000 entries, judges chose 1,214 examples of painting, sculpture and the graphic arts. The roster of well-known names-Thomas Hart Benton, Eugene Speicher, Adolf Dehn, George Grosz, Edward Hopper, Charles Burchfield, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, William Zorach, Peggy Bacon, many another-is long, but incomplete. Some (Georgia O'Keefe, Jose de Creeít) did not submit anything. Some (Frederick Waugh, Robert Brackman) were turned down...
...city dwellers thought so. Possible explanation: city folks hear more about the world's troubles-a reason given by many a police for reg turning to the church. According to the poll, 31% of the people listen to church services on the radio. >In the Survey Graphic, James Henry Leuba, retired Bryn Mawr psychologist, published results of a religious sampling of names in Who's Who in America, grouped as: 1) bankers, 2) other businessmen, 3) lawyers, 4) writers. Psychologist Leuba's conclusions from replies to his statements of belief...
Seniors and graduate students will be able to take a course in "The History of the Book" next year, according to an authoritative announcement from Widener Library yesterday. The new course marks the latest stepping-stone in the rapid progress of the recently created Department of Printing and Graphic Arts...
Pierce Hall contains the new windtunnel, just completed last fall for tests of model airplanes in wind speeds ranging up to 140 miles an hour. Here also is the Harvard Soil Mechanics laboratory, a pioneer in its field, where may be seen graphic experiments of the formation of quicksand, landslides, the failure of earth dams and building foundations, and frost heaving...
...Graphic art has very rarely taken on the quality of music. It did so in the work of William Blake. At its best, Blake's line drawing has the airy movement and harmony of a string quartet. This is not all it has. On a few square inches of white paper Blake could and did put forms comparable in grandeur to the frescoes of Michelangelo. Few if any exhibitions this season had more artistic interest than a comprehensive show of Blake which opened last week at the Philadelphia Museum...