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...somberly reflective Adlai Stevenson that his friend Ben Shahn portrays on the cover can be said to capture the ambassador's mood during the past week (as we think it does), it must be put down to prescience...
...Shahn actually did the sketch some time ago, in the spring of 1960, to accompany an article written by Stevenson for a new magazine. But the magazine never got off the ground, the article never appeared, and Shahn's sketch now reaches print for the first time...
...Stieglitz had turned over to her: John Marin, Charles Demuth, and Stieglitz' wife, Georgia O'Keeffe. In addition to the works of these three, Dealer Halpert also sells the paintings of the late Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Arthur Dove and Max Weber. Other artists on this formidable roster: Ben Shahn, Abraham Rattner, Charles Sheeler, Stuart Davis and Sculptor William Zorach-a generation so firmly established that it is hard to realize that they were barely known when the gallery first opened. Two of Mrs. Halpert's former assistants opened galleries of their own with artists that she turned over...
Among the works being sold are manuscripts of Archibald MacLeish and William Alfred, paintings by Jack Wolfe and Carl Nelson, and prints by Ben Shahn and Antonio Frasconi. Of particular interest are the manuscripts of Donald Hall and May Sarton, which contain poetry both in final and working drafts...
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