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THREE recent covers provoked comment from an extraordinary number of readers with insights of their own. All three were strong and inherently controversial works -Rufino Tamayo's stoic study of Actress Jeanne Moreau (TIME, March 5); Ben Shahn's volatile gouache of Martin Luther King (March 19); Sidney Nolan's evanescent whirl of Dancer Rudolf Nureyev (April 16). Some readers found them unusually exciting; others objected vigorously, and a few thought them downright malicious...
...Shahn's King...
...compliments on your choice of cover artist and his representation of Dr. Martin Luther King. Ben Shahn has demonstrated both in his art and in his writings an unmistakably vivid social consciousness, so necessary in our time. W. GRAY SMITH...
...Artist Ben Shahn has depicted King as I see him-just plain evil...
When the news from Alabama-and from all around the U.S.-made Martin Luther King the cover subject for this issue, the editors called on an artist who was particularly appropriate for the assignment. Ben Shahn* is as famed in his own medium of protest as King is in his. Lately he has been contributing posters and lithographs to various civil rights groups. Working from photographs and his own impressions, he turned out his striking gouache study in just eight hours of work, after many hours of thought. He saw his subject mainly as an orator. "This is King today...