Word: graphic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...119th year, the venerable National Academy of Design put on the nation's most genteel, conventional art show. Last week in Manhattan the Academicians packed their staid galleries with 353 items classified as "Contemporary American Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Art," distributed $2,400 in prizes. As usual, portraits of pearl-bearing dowagers vied for space with well-bred views of picturesque squalor. As usual, the show was judiciously peppered with a few works by well-established modernists (Philip Ever-good, William Cropper, Stanley W. Hayter). Typical Academy prizewinner was Alicia Sundt Motts's Bouquet d'Amour...
...same week that the Rhine was crossed, the U.S. people learned the full toll of what their might of arms had wrought in Cologne. No one, except the overly sentimental, shed tears. But for the first time the certain chaos of postwar Germany was made graphic. Everyone knew now that, no matter when the war in Europe ends, its end would not bring a cessation of grave problems. And there was still the stern prospect of the Pacific...
Preserving a picture of Europe's capitals before the devastation of modern-day bombing attacks, a series of six exhibits has been launched at Houghton Library by the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts. Old Paris is the subject of the first presentation, which went on display yesterday...
...nation should stimulate audiences to ask themselves the same question. It should also, by the revelation of a startling statistic which shows Germany's manpower potentially far exceeding any of its neighbors' by 1970, make them realize the importance of a prompt and effective answer. With a graphic explanation of Sumner Welles's partition plan, and a passing nod to the views of Walter Winchell, Lord Vansittart and John Foster Dulles, M.O.T.'s own implicit answer is: "Be stern...
...sparked Styles's primary campaign, promptly disowned their candidate. So did the rabidly pro-Democratic Los Angeles Daily News. Los Angeles' P.A.C. still stood by him. Styles tried to explain, somewhat lamely, that he had joined the Klan to expose it in the old New York Graphic. But this excuse fell through when it turned out he had never been on the Graphic's payroll. Then he took another tack. He pictured himself as a changed man, compared himself to Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black (whose onetime Klan connections almost kept him off the bench...