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...painters have seen the U.S. from colonial days to the present is recorded in 150 works from the recent Whitney Museum retrospective "Art of the United States-1670-1966." The show also includes previously filmed interviews with such contemporary artists as Andrew Wyeth, Edward Hopper, Jack Levine, Robert Rauschenberg and the late Stuart Davis...
Talk was never Edward Hopper's strong suit. His wife Jo, the chatterbox in the family, once observed: "Conversation with Eddie is just like dropping a stone in a well, except that it doesn't thump when it hits bottom." Hopper's eloquence was visual. When he died last week at the age of 84, in the Washington Square studio where he had lived for the past 54 years, he left a half-century-long portrait of the workaday face of America. He had captured it with all the homely honesty of a foursquare realist...
After Cohn's funeral, other obituaries were added: "He was a song plugger and a louse," said Comedian Lou Holtz. "He never learned how to live," said Samuel Goldwyn. "He was," said Hedda Hopper, "a sadistic son of a bitch...
...will be represented by such pop artists as Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. But by startling contrast, William Seitz, former curator of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, who picked the entries, opted for a real grandpop to stage the major U.S. one-man show: Edward Hopper, 84, an old master of realism whose cityscapes go back to his association with the "Ashcan" realists. When someone suggested that Hop might be a bit old-fashioned to be keeping such company, Seitz snapped: "It would be ridiculous to eliminate the best artists simply because they were over 40, or were...
Today, the Boeing Co., under President William M. Allen, employs 125,000 people in 18 countries, last year sold $2 billion worth of products and services. On its books are $3.1 billion worth of orders for everything from helicopters and hydrofoils to the 490-passenger Boeing 747 jet continent hopper, for which Pan Am alone has committed itself to spending another $525 million for deliveries starting...