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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Lynn Patrick, 26, professional hockey-player (New York Rangers) and son of the team's manager, Lester Patrick; and Dorothea Davis, 18, beauteous John Powers model; in Manhattan...
...common way for an art gallery to make a splash is to put on a "subject exhibition." These range from stunt shows which purists deplore (e.g., "Great Rivers in Art" or "Paintings of Pigs") to loftier surveyals of important art forms. In the lofty class this week Manhattan's rich M. Knoedler & Co. presented "Classics of the Nude"-31 pictures from Pollaiuolo to Picasso. This was a good idea. The linear play and complex modeling of the human body, the textures, transparencies and color subtleties of the skin, have made nude painting what Bernard Berenson called "the most absorbing...
...years a celebrity sculptor, bushy-whiskered Jo Davidson is known for his studies of presidents, generals, kings and Gertrude Stein. Of late "Headhunter" Davidson's social types have changed. Dedicated last autumn in Claremore, Okla. was his memorial statue of the late homespun Humorist Will Rogers. Exhibited in Manhattan last November were his portrait busts, made under fire in Spain, of the leaders of the People's Army. Last week when chunky Sculptor Davidson stepped ashore in Manhattan, glowering amiably, he brought with him from Paris a seven-foot, two-ton bronze statue of Walt Whitman, a People...
...Park Avenue vacant lot neatly prettied and pedestaled, Manhattan's lively Sculptors' Guild turned out to haul, hoist and hope for vernal weather. Occasion: a repeat performance this week of its smash-hit outdoor show (TIME, April...
Died. Charles Rupert Stockard, 60, famed biologist, president of the board at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, longtime head of the anatomy department at Cornell University's Medical College; of heart disease; in Manhattan. After a 17-year experiment with guinea pigs, Dr. Stockard asserted that a moderate consumption of alcohol is good for the human race...