Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shift and change of artistic fashion. Collected by princes and merchants alike, he has remained one of the most popular artists in history. With 15 of the 40 surviving paintings attributed to him collected in one room, Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum (see color pages) is today his finest monument...
...noisy confusion compounded of incessant oratory, the rumble of tanks and the clinking of glasses, the Communist world last week celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. In Prague a 105-ft. statue of Stalin was bathed in floodlights. In Budapest a monument to 24 Soviet soldiers killed in the Hungarian "counterrevolution" was unveiled. In Ulan Bator the elite of Outer Mongolia were treated to an address by Soviet ex-Foreign Minister Vyacheslav...
...brush. He painted for children chiefly-half the time for the publishing house of Scribner, which has sold some 1,700,000 of his "Illustrated Classics," from Treasure Island (1911) to The Yearling (1939). Thirteen are still in print, and the set as a whole is a living monument to a magnificent artist...
...answer to The Moral Issue would be a suggestion that the Soviet Government raise a monument to Laika, where the school children can come with flowers and tears for the death of a friend, and joy, admiration and gratitude for the heroism of the first space traveller. Such emotions would contribute much more to the bettering of international relations than the panic of hysterical fear and hostility now evident...
...grandchildren; of a bleeding ulcer complicated by pneumonia; in Norwalk, Conn. Young taught (on and off since 1917) at Manhattan's Art Students League, kept within the realistic tradition, created two of his best-known works for his native Salt Lake City: Sea Gull Monument and Pioneer Monument...