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...most important color; nothing can prostitute it." Although he liked to call them his noirs, Redon lithographs run the gamut of neutral tones from rich black to glaring white, rely upon contrasts for their emotional effect. Typical of Redon's noirs were the Chicago show's mythical Pegasus, The Winged One, a Child's Head with Flowers, and unearthly chimeras ranging all the way from The Head of the Infinite Suspended in a Dim, Precarious Light to a shocking confrontation that anyone who has ever had a hangover could understand at a glance, a boiled egg glaring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Noirs | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...Armory. Most sensational performance: Clarence ("Buddy") Combs, son of a New Jersey horse trader, scored twelve of his team's 15 goals in the first game, six of its ten goals in the second, won the junior (medium-goal) championship almost singlehanded for New Jersey's Pegasus Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Polo Indoors | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...Brown is Pegasus of the Advocate and won the Garrison Prize in Poetry his Freshman year, in 1937. Last year he was not in college. In 1935 he won the Young Poets' prize of "Poetry" magazine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harry Brown Wins Shelley Memorial Award for Poetry | 3/7/1939 | See Source »

...ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN POETRY-Edited by Selden Rodman-Random House ($3). A generous assortment of modern verse, with biographical notes on all the writers represented, and an enthusiastic if somewhat cockerel-sure introduction to contemporary poetics-all aimed to give readers a leg-up on Pegasus. Most readers will like Editor Rodman and his broad-backed horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Sep. 19, 1938 | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

Last year Douglas G. Hertz of Rockleigh, N. J., a millionaire horseman, founded the Pegasus Club of New Jersey for horse enthusiasts. To Anna's party last week he invited 15 proletarian nags and one mule. In favor hats (with holes for their ears), looking as giddy as tipsy old maids on New Year's Eve, the horses munched carrots and greens, then champed into a heavily iced birthday cake. Afterward Anna was awarded a special hat-lavender with an ostrich feather-as the most glamorous horse present. But in the contest for work horse with longest service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Anna's Anniversary | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

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