Word: roerich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soil on the wind and making vast reaches of new desert, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace last spring sent an expedition to the Gobi Desert where, he knew, were sturdy grasses which could outlive extremes of cold and heat and drought. Expedition leader was bald, goat-bearded Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich, painter, mystic, founder of Manhattan's Roerich Museum, habitué of Central Asia (TIME...
Last week, after five months in the wastelands and some unpleasantness with the Japanese military who thought he was leading a pack of White Russians, Nicholas Roerich appeared in Kweisui, Suiyuan Province, ready to start home, his work done two months ahead of time. With him he brought seeds of 300 drought-resisting grasses, some of which may soon begin to carpet the naked patches...
...until comparatively recent times did such painters as the late Léon Bakst and goat-bearded, mystic Nicolas Constantinovich Roerich attempt to start a really Russian school of painting, based on Russia's Byzantine iconographers. There were few examples of this at the Hammer Galleries. The sort of pictures that the Tsars and their friends liked were skillful paraphrases of British and French 19th Century portraits, sentimental landscapes, super-magazine illustrations. On view were five seascapes by Ivan Aivazovsky, a marine painter so beloved by Grand Dukes that they used to buy his pictures by the square inch...
...drought-made deserts of the Midwest. To head the party he chose a Russian-born mystic who has spent most of his 59 years painting 3,000 pictures and preaching to three continents the gospel of Unifying Humanity Through Art. He was grave, goat-bearded Nicholas Konstantin Roerich, honorary president of Manhattan's Roerich Museum. What made him valuable to Secretary Wallace was that from 1924 to 1929 he painted his way through Central Asia, is an authority on its lands and flora...
...Mystic Roerich's job will be to guide two experts from the U. S. Bureau of Plant Industry through Central Asia to the rim of the Gobi Desert. There grow plants hardy enough to survive a summer heat of 100°, a winter cold of -40°, an annual rainfall of less than 16". From these he will help choose grasses and shrubs which can grow in the baking, shifting midlands...