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...varsity boating was as follows: cox, Bob Goodwin; stroke, Masland; seven, Harry Pollock; six, Doug Robertson; five, Spencer Borden; four, William Bancroft; three, John Hodges; two, Captain John Higginson; and bow Alan Hager...
Behind Masland is another sophomore, Harry Pollock, at seven, who rowed in the same position last year. Doug Robertson, up from the JV's, holds down the six spot, and cox Bob Goodwin rounds out the group that faces varsity racing for the first time this afternoon...
Back at the Ranch. The West Side apartment of Textile Manufacturer Benjamin Heller strikes some as an art gallery with a bed. Huge paintings by Pollock, Rothko. Newman and other abstractionists, as well as Greek and African sculptures and pre-Columbian potteries, loom everywhere-in the living room and kitchen, bedroom and bathroom. Because action painters feel a compulsion to paint big, Heller kept the apartment free of cornices, architectural decoration and ornamental bric-a-brac whose fussy detail would clash with the large-scale paintings. But, insists Collector Heller, "the idea that our apartment was built around...
...Jackson Pollock's Landscape and Arabesque share the same basic rhythm and even the same somberness of palette, but the Pollock retrospective does not stop there. On view at the Atheneum are two sketchbooks dating back to the days when Pollock was studying with the now unfashionable Thomas Hart Benton. The sketches are studies after the old masters, but they are not direct copies; each in its own right is a fastidious and sensitive work. Along with the sketches are photographs of some early landscapes by Pollock that Benton bought. This was not surprising, for they might have been...
...seen a painting we liked," says he, "we've been able to make up our minds quickly without having to go through a committee. We are the committee." In the last seven years alone, Knox has given more than 160 works to the gallery. He got his Pollock before the artist's sudden death sent Pollock prices skyrocketing. The Albright was the first museum in the world to buy a Clyfford Still and one of the first to buy a Henry Moore. It now has at least one work by almost every major abstractionist from the late Arthur...