Word: kantor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LONG REMEMBER-MacKinlay Kantor-Coward-McCann...
...made a speech there, Gettysburg remains a famed landmark in U. S. history. The story of that three-day battle between Lee's veterans and Meade's Army of the Potomac has been told many & many a time since 1863 without growing older in the telling. Author Kantor's version, an attempt to describe the battle as it might have appeared to a noncombatant native of the town, has almost the freshness of an eyewitness account...
...just being sent to the rear as a civilian when a Confederate bombardment blocked the way. When Pickett's charge came whooping over the wheatfields and up to the stone wall on Cemetery Hill Bale forgot he was a pacifist. Though history is silent on the point, Author Kantor gives his hero the credit of killing General Armistead. Bale found his man, not dead but badly wounded. The three days' fateful thunders had been too much for his mistress's conscience and she was glad to expiate her sin by nursing her crippled husband. Bale took...
...that shed real light. The 100 artist contributors make an almost perfect score of hits in the great game called "Understanding America." Drawings by Peter Arno, Otto Soglow, other New Yorker artists; photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, Anton Bruehl; paintings by George Bellows, Charles Sheeler, Georgia O'Keefe, Morris Kantor, Charles Burchfield et al. are intermingled with sculptural figures, early American paintings to make a vivid tout ensemble...
Perhaps the most important artists represented are Benjamin Karfiol, Morris Kantor, and Reginald Marsh. Karfiol has four pictures in the exhibit: "Picnic", "Torso", "Pine Island", and "The Yellow Drape." Two large canvases, "Staircase" and "Still Life with Glass Bottle" are the works of Morris Kantor, whose more recent pictures hint toward Victorian subjects treated in the Modern Manner. In the two temper paintings "Tenth Avenue" and "Locomotive Watering," Reginald Marsh has suppressed the brilliant coloring which formerly characterized his pieces...