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...masterpiece Dufy thought it to be? Its central focus, a dynamo rendered blueprint-style in all its 1937 grandeur, is sublimely anachronistic; its diversity makes it seem a collage of pages from a sketchbook; its pretentious setting heightens all its weaknesses. Somewhat ambiguously, the museum bills the mural as "the world's largest painting"; viewers go away feeling that they have seen the world's largest hand-painted billboard...
...This lover of open spaces grew up within a block of one of the biggest urban open spaces in the U.S.?Chicago's Lake Michigan. "I can't remember when I didn't want to be an architect," says Pereira. As a boy, he was seldom without a sketchbook in his hand; at twelve, he had a part-time job as a sign painter. He worked his way through the University of Illinois painting scenery, illustrating menus and lecture notes for a duplicating company, picking up odd art jobs. He majored in architecture, minored in physics, bore down heavily...
...medic in World War I, Heckel kept his sketchbook close to him, recorded in blistering strokes the wounded and the insane, the sight of bombed-out villages and bands of homeless orphans. As the gallery's Erwin Petermann, the arranger of the show, says: "Heckel is still as provocative as anything an angry young man of today will concoct, with the difference that instead of showing one's disdain in burlap and trash, or manifesting one's revulsion in painted soup-can labels, his work shows the roughness of life in realistic exclamation marks...
...TURNER. While Constable, Crome and Gainsborough were painters in the rustic style, Joseph Mallord William Turner painted in what Basil Taylor calls the sublime style. With his sketchbook and a change of linen, he wandered about England looking for scenes of abstract emotion, and it has been said that the whole romantic wing of today's abstract painting derives from him. Once he had himself lashed to the mast of a boat for four hours during a severe storm at sea. Critics called the resulting painting "a mass of soapsuds and whitewash." Turner protested: "I wonder what they think...
...dealers. On the theory that what may seem trivial today could be important tomorrow, the Archives will accept or buy just about anything. It has more than a million original and microfilmed items, among them Benjamin West's wine bills, poems written by Albert Ryder, a Lyonel Feininger sketchbook, the notes and papers of Walt Kuhn. Last week it announced an offbeat donation from Painter Jack Levine-108 drawings that show his prodigious childhood talent...