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...TIME, July 16, 1951) despite the fact that his painstaking realism, his romantic, nostalgic overtones and meticulous brushwork flout nearly every tenet of the paint-for-paint's-sake schools of abstraction and impressionism now in vogue. He paints what he knows best: his latest tempera, titled Chambered Nautilus,* is a portrait of his mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Baked Surprises | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

Owned by Television Producer-Actor Robert Montgomery, Chambered Nautilus is currently on exhibit in Manhattan's Whitney Museum Annual. Four and a half months in the painting, it is a real Wyeth tour de force. Its breeze-blown, transparent valances swaying from the old-fashioned fourposter, its daring use of bare wall and blank window contrasted with the meticulous rendering of wicker basket and window-shade drawstring, require skills and technique that few modern artists even claim to possess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Baked Surprises | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...work progressed, Wyeth suddenly realized that the sea shell set by chance at the foot of the bed was in fact symbolic of his subject. The nautilus builds additional "chambers" on its shell as it matures; so, he felt, Mrs. James "had built another room on the series of rooms that is her life." The painting gives substance to a Wyeth principle: "So many artists tell me they reached the bottom of realism too fast. They reached the depth of their own emotions, but not of the object. What the subject means is the important thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Baked Surprises | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

NOVEMBER A Cambridge Crime Commission accuses Harvard Criminoligist William McCord of being the local Mafia leader. Atomic submarine the Nautilus is destroyed by an unknown assailant. A Radcliffe senior finds a pot of gold at rainbow's end and walks away from it. "I don't accept presents from a strange Man." The Brattle Theater purchases Radio City...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tea Leaves and Taurus | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...ANATOMY OF NATURE, by Andreas Feininger (168 pp.; Crown: $5.95).These pictures of a great photographer prove that the camera eye has better vision than the human eye. A celestial galaxy is caught, and a sense of vast mystery with it; a nautilus in cross section conveys the wonder of architecture in a simple skeleton. Technically remarkable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Good to Look At | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

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