Word: midtown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gives his conversation and his drawings a startling immediacy. But his paintings are something else again: mysterious distillations "of long and apparently anxious thought. It took him two years to produce the 15 paintings of the present series, which will go on view next month at Manhattan's Midtown Gallery. The five reproduced on the following pages show the range and strangeness of his imaginings. ¶The Diver has as its setting a flooded rooftop on Pittsburgh's Polish Hill, with the Pennsylvania Railroad main line in the background. Key to the composition is the girl...
...Bleriot $5,000 for buzzing the 31 miles from Calais to Dover in his tiny (25 h.p.) monoplane in 37 minutes. Last week the Daily Mail could think of no better way to celebrate the anniversary than to have a cross-Channel race, this time between London's midtown Marble Arch and Paris' midtown Arc de Triomphe, and with $28,000 in prize money at stake. The result was one of the zaniest races of all time...
...buses. subways, cabs, restaurants and elevators. His recordings of street singers, songs by national groups, church services in Harlem have provided the basis for nearly a dozen pop songs, including Sippin' Soda (Guy Mitchell), The Pendulum Song (Nelson Riddle), Wimoweh (Gordon Jenkins and the Weavers). In his midtown Manhattan apartment, such singers as Pete Seeger, Josh White, Harry Belafonte have sampled Schwartz's 1,500 hours of recorded tape, including more than 5,000 songs from some 40 countries...
...fighting. I fought about the little children's nursery rhymes; I fought about 'eeny, meeny, miney, mo'; I fought about being bumped in the hall. We fought with bottles, garbage cans, rocks, hands and feet." Off and on, Harry ran with the gangs-the Buccaneers, the Midtown Midgets. When the streets became too dangerous and the Depression too tough, his mother packed up nine-year-old Harry and his younger brother Dennis and returned to Jamaica...
...investor does not confine himself to French art; the established Americans also benefit. At the Midtown Gallery, Robert Vickrey's sober portraits of people and places sold so fast (at prices up to $2,500) that the gallery was begging him for more pictures. At the other end of the abstract-realist spectrum, all but three of I. Rice Pereira's cool and calm abstractions ($1,400-$2,300 ), on display at the Nordness Gallery, were sold...