Word: probst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Karl Knight Probst, 79, freelance consulting engineer who reportedly got $200 (his standard weekly fee) for turning out the boxy design for the bone-rattling, indestructible Jeep in seven days in 1940 after he was asked to build a sturdier vehicle than Germany's war-adapted Volkswagen; after a long illness; in Dayton...
...today. The painting called Nijinsky is followed by an illuminating sketch of a rocking chair done in 1951. Here, the chair's structure is so loose that its parts seem about to fly off to form a new and wholly unpredictable pattern. The jump from there to Probst I is not a leap...
...essentially the same Kline painting is in the Whitney called Probst I, and all you can say is 'So what's new?' Adolph Gottlieb's Soft Blue, Soft Black is another arrangement of one big circular smudge hovering over another, the lower more like a gear, the upper more like a sun. He's been doing it for years...