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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Small, strong, passionate and fearless, Koerner says exactly what comes into his head and draws exactly what comes into his eyes. This "I gives his conversation and his drawings a startling immediacy. But his paintings are something else again: mysterious distillations "of long and apparently anxious thought. It took him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: DISTRESS AND DELIGHT | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

¶The Flight is also a study in opposites. The young daredevil, or perhaps the your Leonardo, poises on the verge of trying his wings from a cliff top overlooking Pittsburgh's Bigelow Boulevard. He defies authority and rigid conservatism (which say it cannot be done), represented in only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: DISTRESS AND DELIGHT | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

¶ The River is dominated by one of the piers for the since-completed Fort Pitt Bridge. The pier has the quality of an ancient monument, and perhaps the giant Negro who helped build it is descended from a builder of the Pyramids. His handshake sets the theme for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: DISTRESS AND DELIGHT | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

An angel descended last year on unsuspecting Davidson College (enrollment: 920) near Charlotte, N.C. He was a lively, white-mustached angel with a resemblance to Teddy Roosevelt-and $400,000 under his wing. The cash proved that he was very much of this world, and so did his terms: the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Halfway Giver | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Why Wait to Die? Dana gets as much fun out of giving as he did out of getting. He was to both manners born, in New York City's fashionable Gramercy Park area of the 1880s. His wealthy banker father financed Pacific whaling fleets, invested in coal mines; his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Halfway Giver | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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