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...That Cry. Not only France but Germany, Switzerland and the Scandinavian countries are becoming customers of Aubusson. The U.S., which until last year imposed a 60% duty on modern tapestries, has not yet begun to buy in quantity. Last month a group of U.S. artists, including Stuart Davis, Ben Shahn and Theodores Stamos, formed the Society of American Tapestry Designers in the hope of enticing other Americans to take their place beside the Europeans. Lurçat and his colleagues do not worry about competition: not only are tapestries more in demand; they are also getting bigger...
Behind the Wall. In time Barnes assembled the world's greatest collection of Matisses, the largest group of Cezannes outside the Louvre, and over $50 million worth of art by Picasso, Braque, Gauguin, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe and Ben Shahn. When his collection outgrew his home and factory, Barnes built a marble temple to house it in suburban Merion, surrounded the place with ferocious police dogs and a ten-foot "spite wall." Ostensibly the collection was a public institution, entitled to tax exemption, but the tiny part of the public that...
...trying to do in my ads." Paepcke had hit upon the idea of illustrating the "Great Ideas of Western Man" in a series of ads painted by top artists. It was a gallery open to millions-and millions came to know for the first time everyone from Ben Shahn and Gyorgy Kepes to Surrealist René Magritte...
...TIME ran 162 four-color editorial pages. An additional 52 four-color pages were devoted to TIME'S covers, which were painted by such noted artists as Pietro Annigoni, Boris Artzybasheff, Aaron Bohrod, Bernard Buffet, Boris Chaliapin, James Chapin, Peter Hurd, John Koch, Henry Koerner, Bernard Safran, Ben Shahn, Rufino Tamayo, Robert Vickrey and Andrew Wyeth...
...winters ago, Portfolio, a magazine devoted to reproductions of the best graphics by Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates, made its appearance in the Square. This fine effort to stimulate interest in the visual arts in the University was headed by Ben Shahn, then the Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer. With funds supplied from a private source and with the cooperation of the Department of Fine Arts, the venture promised an increased audience for the undergraduate artist. Unfortunately, there was no second issue of this fine publication...