Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into Manhattan and set up its tents at Broadway's dingy St. James Theatre for four nights. This time it showed Manhattan's dance fans two new U. S.-made ballets: 1) Charade, an intricate, tasty bit of choreographic icing by husky Dancer Lew Christensen; 2) City Portrait, a dour tenement-street pantomime choreographed by Dancer Eugene Loring. Dance critics liked Charade's tricky trip ping and whimsey, found City Portrait somewhat incoherent. But Kirstein 's home made ballet, like Finland's home-made army, appeared able to hold its own against the Russian product...
Grant Wood is an earthy, peaceable Iowan who manages to stir up many an artistic rumpus. His American Gothic (1930), portrait of a bleak, bald Iowa farmer and his tight-lipped daughter, at once became chief icon of the past decade's resurgent move to "paint American." His Daughters of Revolution (1932), three prim, grim, self-important matrons, scandalized the D. A. R. Lately Artist Wood has spent more time teaching and making lithographs than he has at his easel...
...would have discovered that there are thirteen people seated at the table and forty-eight squares in the tablecloth, caused by folding. These figures, of course, represent the thirteen original American colonies and the forty-eight states now belonging to the union. . . . It is interesting to find that a portrait of Charles Porter, Harvard undergraduate, is now hanging in the Wellesley Art Gallery. . . . In Turner's painting, "Slave Ship," chains are found to be floating on the surface of the water while the slaves to whom they are attached are gradually going under...