Word: l
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...behalf of the students, the Council report recommending a Student Activities Center as the University was memorial was formally presented to President Conant Tuesday by Thomas L. P. O'Donnell '47, Council president...
Though Prexy T. L. P. O'Donnell '47 tried every secret hand-shake and pass-word he knew, including "General Education," the sentinel was adamant. As a last resort, when the Council failed to turn up with a quorum, it was suggested that several society members be hastily appointed to the group, in exchange for use of the room. But they met on the third floor...
...Léger, who looks like a melancholy mechanic, recently returned to Paris after five war years in Manhattan. He works in a cold, dreary atelier on rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, warns visitors to "please keep your hat on, otherwise you will catch cold." One of Léger's happiest memories of the U.S. is the Ringling Bros, circus. Last year he painted two pictures of it which had all the power, but not the heavy complexity, of his usual stuff. They so impressed a Manhattan dealer that he decided to build a show of U.S. artists...
...show, entitled "The Big Top," opened last week. Dealer Samuel M. Kootz borrowed Picasso's pinwheel-shaped Acrobat from Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art for the occasion, invited six young U.S. abstractionists (Calder, Motherwell, et al.) to paint circus pictures to go with Léger's. The catalogue cover hopefully urged gallerygoers to see clowns, tumblers, bareback riders, and other intrepid performers. Some of their jigsaw abstractions looked as if they had played with kaleidoscopes instead of seeing a circus. Léger's Acrobats with White Horse and slant-eyed, four-ringed Chinese...
...Léger appeared to have gained almost as much from Manhattan as U.S. moderns used to get out of Paris. Says he: "Nowhere else have I found such an energetic and dynamic atmosphere. The French public will be amazed when it compares my American painting with my pre-American output. America has added color to my palette...