Word: john
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the University of Wisconsin lured chubby, Kansas-born John Steuart Curry to lecture farm boys on painting, art rivalry among U. S. colleges began to burn with a hard, gemlike flame. Other up-&-coming schools promptly hired their own resident artists, not to teach art but to talk it, to paint while undergraduates gaped and to give an occasional steer to hopeful dedicates. To the University of Georgia went Native Son Lamar Dodd. Dartmouth called home its own Paul Sample. Muralist Thomas Benton spurned all Missouri compromises during four stormy years teaching and painting at Kansas City...
...been sorting 2,500 U. S. lithographs and etchings into a big heap of rejections, a little heap of selections. His little heap appeared last week as a book* containing 100 (10 in. by 13 in.) black & white prints by such top-flight U. S. artists as Thomas Benton, John Steuart Curry, Boardman Robinson, John Sloan, Grant Wood, for the first time brought together the most significant black-&-whites by outstanding U. S. artists in a handy, inexpensive form. Thoughtfully, the publishers perforated the binding edge of all the prints so they may be taken out for framing...
...pages apiece, others from one to three. There were prints to suit everybody. People who itch and fidget when confronted with the self-conscious strainings of Thomas Benton's I Got a Girl on Sourwood Mountain could turn a page to his Lonesome Road. For people who consider John Steuart Curry's darkly violent lithograph Line Storm "theatrical," Critic Craven supplied a pasture pastoral like Curry's bully Ajax. Others who sometimes wonder why Grant Wood indulges in such painstakingly stuffy satire as Honorary Degree (see cut) could admire his slick Seedtime and Harvest. Subtler...
...Francisco, Presbyterian Dr. John Hayes Creighton, onetime chaplain, announced that he had oiled his army rifle But San Francisco Mormons, Buddhists Christian Scientists, Jews, Protestants drummed up a "Peace Day," subtitled "Keep America Out of War Day," at the Golden Gate Exposition. The Chicago
...Lord's work. They could not think of a name for it, though, until Insurance Man Will D. Knights opened his Bible, read from Judges how the Lord had put a sword in the hand of his mighty warrior, Gideon. Paint Salesman Sam Hill and Shoe Salesman John H. Nicholson agreed that "The Gideons" would be their name...