Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thayer (Ted) Watkins, 18. of Denver. The son of a factory worker and a waitress, Ted worked his way summers as a dishwasher, salad cook, spray painter and apprentice engineer in a local rubber factory. In his spare time he puttered about his school laboratory over such experiments as determining the nitrogen in wheat and recovering the tin from tin cans. Had it not been for his $2,000-a-year scholarship. Ted could have earned a degree only by going to school at night. Now he is studying to be a chemical engineer at M.I.T...
...tiny Galeria Souza has been the talk of the town and a source of interested buzzing in art centers far above and beyond the border. Critics greeted the show with salvos of praise that made it the biggest Mexican art event since the 1949 retrospective of another painter, Diego Rivera. Paris' Museum of Modern Art Director Jean Cassou fired off an urgent telegram, then flew to Mexico City to see for himself. One Californian sent in his $4,000 check for one painting, a leader of Ft. Worth's oiligarchy reserved another four paintings, and U.S. museums hurried...
...lithography boom is proving profitable to artists and art lovers alike. A one-edition gouache or oil by France's most popular younger painter, 28-year-old Bernard Buffet (TIME, Feb. 18, 1952 et seq.), costs up to $3,500. One print from his 75-edition Still Life with White Fruit Dish costs only $80, but sale of the whole edition would mount up to $6,000. Top Italian Painter Afro, 44, winner of Italy's first prize for painting in this year's Venice Biennale, gets $700 for a work the size of his abstract lithograph...
...Cincinnati's museum discovered, such bargain art sells right off the walls. During its seven-week exhibit, more than 300 lithographs were sold. Most popular: Cranes in the Moonlight by Japan's leading lithographer, Yoshinobu Masuda, 51, and Zebras, by Swiss Painter Hans Erni. What gladdens lithograph fans most, however, is that the current boom is matching quality with quantity. Not since the days when such lithographers as Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Vuillard and Signac were at work has the outlook been so bright. Says Cincinnati's Print Curator Gustave von Groschwitz: "The current boom will equal...
...contrast to later-day Mayan works, writes Mexican Painter-Archaeologist Miguel Covarrubías, Mezcala objects are "highly stylized and schematic, and their coarse, vigorous character makes them readily identifiable" (see cut). Probably sculpted between 200 B.C.-800 A.D., surviving examples of Mezcala workmanship are small (many only 2-in. to 7-in. tall) and were made from the same hard stone used for chisels. But primitive as are the small masks, figures and votive animals, they pass the test of good sculpture. Even magnified in size, they keep their proportion and acquire a monumental gravity...