Word: nest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sculptor George Segal is a onetime New Jersey chicken farmer who flew the coop to make plaster casts of people. Last week he got a mighty nice little nest egg for all his efforts: the $5,000 first prize at the Chicago Art Institute's 68th annual exhibition. The jurors also awarded prizes of $2,500 each to Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella and Larry Poons, all New Yorkers of the pop-op-geometric persuasion, and a $1,000 prize to Sculptor Robert Morris...
Zoom to the Crow's-Nest. High-flown romance was N. C. Wyeth's special domain, but he infused it with a meticulous realism all his own. The inn in the background of the scene of Blind Pew was modeled on Wyeth's boyhood home in Needham, Mass., where he himself first read Treasure Island. "He was also a man who felt deeply about the tragedy of life," says Son-in-Law Peter Hurd, pointing out that Blind Pew was modeled on a blind man Wyeth knew. Far from mere illustration, it is a profound study...
...real secret, says Andrew Wyeth, was high drama: "Look at the picture of Jim Hawkins in the crow's-nest, and you can see how he worked toward something like angle shots in motion pictures. Much as a camera does, you zoom in on things." And it is N.C. Wyeth's enduring worth that even today the hearts of oldsters and youngsters alike zoom aloft with...
...region designed to support the B-52 bombers, which now fly 5,200-mile round trips from Guam for their missions in Viet Nam. Though there are no present plans to make U-Tapao a full-time B-52 base, the huge birds may well use the new nest as a turn-around point from where they could rearm or refuel...
Under the direction of former Yale Ornithologist Dillon Ripley, 52, Washington's fusty Smithsonian Institution has been spreading its wings of late. Its most staggering nest egg, donated last May, is Joseph Hirshhorn's $25 million collection of painting and sculpture, which is destined for its own building on the Capitol mall but will be administered by the Smithsonian. Last week the Smithsonian received a second bonanza: 102 paintings assembled for S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., four years ago. Under the title "Art: USA," they traveled 70,000 miles through 14 countries on three continents to become the most...