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Along with such classics as Edward Hopper's Early Sunday Morning and Reginald Marsh's Holy Name Mission, Mark Tobey, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Lee Gatch in particular had succeeded in seizing the spirit of the New World's new worlds (opposite). In their vision of the city, they found something new to conjure with: the starry, neon-lit quality of urban America as it shows itself by night. They portrayed not actual locations so much as vast shadowlands humming with lights and movements. All three pictured truths about the American city which had never been...
...Hollywood the press stewed, too Wrote Gossipist Louella Parsons: "As the time draws near, I am tempted to cove her wedding but fear I won't be able to do it." Reason: Louella has not been able to wangle an invitation. Columnists Hedda Hopper and Sheilah Graham were also miffed to be off the list. The only invitation to a newsman went to Look Staffer Rupert Allan, but only because he is another of Grace's old friends. Not even Grace's M-G-M Studio Boss Dore Schary, who wears his pride on his sleeve...
...trouble was not in such modern old masters as Max Weber, the late Lyonel Feininger (see MILESTONES) and Marsden Hartley, who to British eyes were only American reflections of European trends. And in Edward Hopper's lonely city scenes and George Bellows' Dempsey and Firpo, the Sunday Times found "the real rude stuff of native American art." The pained cries of angry outrage were provoked by the abstract expressionists...
...realistic scenes of grim train yards, black iron drawbridges, rows of workers' unpainted houses had put him in the forefront of the American Scene painters of the 1930s. But as one critic quipped, Burchfield, with his prevailing gloomy mood (see cut above), seemed too often like Painter Edward Hopper on a rainy...
Professor Harris prefaces his statement as follows: "I am very glad to write a note on the problem of future enrollments at Harvard. What I write is, of course, a purely personal opinion; but I believe at this time it is helpful to throw all views into the discussion hopper." The statement follows...