Word: showings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slums of Glasgow. After he moved to Canada 19 years ago to run a secondhand furniture shop, he found that he could attract customers by drawing in the window. One day Scottie's drawing attracted Bookbinder Douglas Duncan, who bought his pictures, helped arrange a one-man show in Toronto. By 1946 Scottie had moved on to London, become a hero to Horizon. Critics hailed him as "one of the most pronounced artistic personalities in London," found in him "the magic of simplicity...
Minnesota, which claimed the largest state-fair art show in the country, gave its first prize in oils to a poster-slick abstraction of a stage set that might have come out of a studio in midtown Manhattan. Iowa's prizewinner (in the '30s Grant Wood once won three firsts in a row) was a somber doorway that could have opened into a house on almost any Main Street in the land. California's winners, hung in a monster open-air cabana over beds of dazzling yellow marigolds, were low-keyed oil portraits with little sunshine...
...Illinois, where the Old Northwest Territory Art Exhibit competition drew off professional work and left the amateurs a show to themselves, Amateur Verne Alkire walked away with three prizes. But her conventional paintings of boats in a harbor, gladiolas, and a nursery, daubed between kitchen and barnyard duties, were no closer to the Illinois prairies than ex-Coastguardman Garo Antreasian's carefully composed painting of a sordid street in Indianapolis' South Side, which took grand prize at the Old Northwest...
Died. George Washington Mitchell, 70, Negro doorman at the U.S. embassy in Paris. An embassy landmark for quarter of a century, Mitchell went to Europe more than 50 years ago with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, stayed on to become known to thousands of traveling Americans and visiting statesmen...
Fibber McGee & Molly (Tues. 9 p.m., NBC). Hour-long show to celebrate 15 years...