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Discussing this state of affairs with a legislative committee, one Homer Ludwick, executive secretary of the Greater North Dakota Association, made his point by exhibiting a children's jigsaw-puzzle map of the U.S. Sure enough, the symbols on the North Dakota puzzle piece were a spear of grain and a thermometer showing a low of- 45°. Furthermore, people on the outside were always talking about a "blizzard sweeping out of North Dakota." Something, Ludwick demanded, has got to be done to counter all this bad publicity...
...Metcalf's moonlit May Night to John Hult-berg's Yellow Sky (TIME, May 2, 1955), and including Childe Hassam, George Bellows and Edward Hopper. Across the hall was a first-rate collection made up of nothing but onetime nonwinners: Albert Pinkham Ryder, Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, John Sloan, Marsden Hartley and John Marin. Said Corcoran Director Williams: "We know from the statistics of previous shows that only three or four of the exhibitors will be names to conjure with in the year 2007. Which ones are they...
...observed through a dusty brass telescope, opened the way for a score of great artists who wedded themselves to the infinitely various U.S. landscape. Then, in the supposedly materialistic era following the Civil War, three titans loomed on the horizon of U.S. art, as they still do today: Ryder, Homer and Eakins. Ryder saw life as something of a dream, Homer as a struggle, and Eakins as a solemn commitment. Each pictured it as he saw it, with complete integrity, so their works are as different as morning, noon and night. Yet each can make the viewer exclaim, "IVe seen...
What Hopper has been able to do, he would never admit. He has opened a whole new chapter in American realism, painting a new world never before pictured. Where Copley created a world of men, Cole a world of nature, and Homer a world of struggle between the two. Hopper paints the raw, uneasy world that Americans have built on this land...
Pale Rider. In Orofino, Idaho, Elk Hunter Phil Ingram took aim, fired, dropped his quarry, later agreed to pay Farmer Homer Richardson $100 for the horse he blasted out from under...