Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WALTER W. RICHARDSON Jefferson...
...leader of this cultural crusade is Edgar P. Richardson. 54, who has been successfully pushing American art among the automakers and manufacturers of Detroit for almost three decades, particularly since he became the director of the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Archives of American Art. This week Detroit's Institute of Arts is staging an ambitious exhibit based on its director's book. Painting in America, published last fall. The result is one of the most comprehensive surveys of American art ever staged...
...painters Art Historian Richardson puts on the roll call of the "pioneers" of modern art is the Italian-born New Yorker, Joseph Stella (1879-1946). His abstraction. The Bridge (opposite), is a portrait of steel and sinews, of mind and muscle, of man's power and industrial might. The painting evokes an epoch in the history of American art, a period of revolt against "pretty pictures," of the discovery of a new world for the painter to paint. Applying the new techniques then coming into fashion, Painter Stella chose for his subject that typically American scene, the manmade, industrialized...
...discussion on how long we should go before somebody would be allowed to win $100,000. We teased first with a few $50,000 winners. In terms of showmanship, we had to work out the ideal timing and the ideal winner." The producers chose 70-year-old Mrs. Ethel Richardson of Los Angeles, a folk-song buff. For a switch, they decided the next big winner should be a young schoolboy. They settled on 14-year-old George L. Wright III of Manhattan...
...John Richardson '08 of Boston and George E. Hale of Chicago were named national vice chairmen to succeed R. Ammi Cutter '22, who has been appointed to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Richardson will handle gifts from graduates of classes prior to 1926, and Hale will handle donations from later classes...