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Last year TIME ran 162 four-color editorial pages. An additional 52 four-color pages were devoted to TIME'S covers, which were painted by such noted artists as Pietro Annigoni, Boris Artzybasheff, Aaron Bohrod, Bernard Buffet, Boris Chaliapin, James Chapin, Peter Hurd, John Koch, Henry Koerner, Bernard Safran, Ben Shahn, Rufino Tamayo, Robert Vickrey and Andrew Wyeth...
Best-or Bad? Sir: In regard to your Dec. 21 magazine: I am pleased to read the story on Artist Henry Koerner. I too am convinced that H. K. "is one of the nation's best living painters...
...Although I have admired Henry Koerner's TIME covers, I was disappointed in his paintings. Ugliness is never beautiful. Nor should - Whose own painting has been reproduced in color in TIME (May 28, 1951, and Dec. 8, 1952). content ("the basic human condition, especially in America") ever be a criterion for artistic vision and expression of an individual...
...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 whole: friendship, love and earned reward. It is a surprisingly happy picture for Koerner, but more important is the fact that in an age when few even try to paint deep space, he has painted it so well as to bring even the most reluctant viewer straight inside the picture. In the foreground, like a sunny signature he has put his own self-portrait...
...wealth of sentiment, there is little sentimental about Koerner, and the America he pictures in kaleidoscopic fashion is more disturbing, all in all, than delightful. Future generations may well debate how much of this disturbing quality was in the man and how much in the nation...