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Professor Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter, archeologist, mystic, delights in huge canvases and brilliant colors. His gnarled and twisted monsters, weird dwarfs, beautiful fairy princesses march in gorgeous pageant across the walls of his exhibits. Four years ago Painter Roerich gathered together some scientifically-minded artist friends, his wife, his son George, (Harvard Orientalist) and set out on an expedition into Asia to get inspiration and information about tribal customs and religions. For three years he kept in touch with the home office, his Roerich Museum, in Manhattan. Then for a year all was silence. Last week, while friends feared...
...Roerich American expedition after many hardships has reached Himalayas. . . . Many observations concerning Buddhism...
...NICHOLAS ROERICH...
From Chinese Turkestan word came from Nicholas Roerich, painter of eastern panoramas, founder of the International Art Centre of Manhattan, that he and his wife and son had been told by the Dactai of Khotan that they had better keep out of his country. Mr. Roerich has been in Central Asia since...