Word: sloan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pick-Sloan...
There were two plans for not only Missouri River flood control, but for navigation, irrigation, and electric power as well. One, the Pick-Sloan plan of the Army engineers and the U. S. Reclamation Bureau, was already in the blueprint stage, with some construction under way. The other, a Missouri Valley Authority following the general pattern of the TVA, was only on paper. The difference between them was that the Pick-Sloan plan was an amalgam of Federal and State agencies, and of compromises between proponents of irrigation and navigation, while the MVA would be an independent regional agency treating...
...they stumped on their own, Stassen kept rolling: to a breakfast of the Platte County Republicans at Columbus (where he promised the Midwest a Secretary of Agriculture); to Norfolk (where he plumped for the inclusion of farm labor costs in parity prices) ; to Fremont (where he backed the Pick-Sloan plan for developing the Missouri River Valley, called for outlawing of the Communist party). He even found time to go to a Shrine circus...
Stripes for the Nude. For the past 20 years, Sloan has been laboring to invent a new kind of figure painting. Instead of looking out of the window for subjects, he works mostly from the model, six to eight hours a day, in a big, messy hotel studio just north of Greenwich Village. He paints his models traditionally to start with, in tempera and oil glazes to give them a proper glow. Then, as a finishing touch, he adds hundreds of circling red pinstripes, like scratches, to the flesh tones. For Sloan, the pinstripes "clinch the form"; for almost everyone...
...Sloan has outlived the public's disapproval of his "Ashcan" art, and his long, bony, Scotch-Irish face looks almost fiercely stubborn when he says he will prove the public wrong once more. "I shared a studio with Henri once," Sloan says, "and he used to tell me, 'Never feel that you're making a work of art.' Well, I've drifted away from Henri's idea; I guess lately I've been trying to do just that, to paint a work...