Word: paints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show, entitled "The Big Top," opened last week. Dealer Samuel M. Kootz borrowed Picasso's pinwheel-shaped Acrobat from Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art for the occasion, invited six young U.S. abstractionists (Calder, Motherwell, et al.) to paint circus pictures to go with Léger's. The catalogue cover hopefully urged gallerygoers to see clowns, tumblers, bareback riders, and other intrepid performers. Some of their jigsaw abstractions looked as if they had played with kaleidoscopes instead of seeing a circus. Léger's Acrobats with White Horse and slant-eyed, four-ringed Chinese...
Soon Sheeler gave up trying to lead a double life between his canvases and his negatives, decided to see if he could paint reality even more clearly and cleanly than his camera did. It worked. Except for rather arbitrary color schemes, his fanatically realistic paintings looked just like photographs-retouched...
...suit, his leftist-M.P. wife Jennie Lee in her usual red tweed coat and lizard-skin shoes. Outside the royal box there were only two tiaras. And Covent Garden's scarlet-&-gold opulence had been restored mostly by mere elbow grease. Explained the manager: "Very little new paint has been used, and then only in cases where it was necessary for cleanliness. . . . There is hardly a spot of new gilt anywhere in the theater...
...first envisioned through a glass of beer. Said he: "As far back as I can remember, the Anheuser-Busch brewery used a picture of Custer's last stand on their calendars. I've seen it in every saloon and pool hall in the Southwest." Benton decided to paint his own version because he was confident that Cassily Adams' bloody panorama (for which Adolphus Busch Sr. paid $30,000 in 1892) was "not much of a picture." A good many barroom judges will still prefer the original...
...into at"; "I wish to God I could get a good pen. I'll be damned if I think any are made." . . . "Dear Charley-Look here, have the Am. Pub. Co. swindled me out of only $2,000? I thought it was five"; "I have this idea: to paint the white marble (which immediately surrounds [my] hall fireplace) the same strong red of the hall walls, & then cover it with Mr. De Forest's thin arabesque-cut brass sheets. . . . Ask . . . if that can be done"; "Go to the Delaware, Lackawanna & Hudson R.R. and see if they will rent...