Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contains a number of exciting works indicative of the diversity and technical achievement of American print-makers. Though one cannot call one particular style the most successful, certainly the most surprising aspect of the show is the brilliance of two realist artists, Aubrey Schwarz and Moishe Smith...
Schwartz and Smith are not the Michelangeli of our age, by any means, but their prints present a refreshing and moving image of things in a new, though at the same time basically imitative manner...
...Smith and Abstract Expressionist Philip Guston. Both finished out of the big prize money. But as a whole, the exhibition proved that the modern, peculiarly American idiom of abstract expressionism has become the lingua franca of art the world over. Murky and only half articulate, it is nevertheless spoken everywhere. The idiom has plenty of champions, and may yet find its poet...
Died. James Mcllhany Thomson, 81, longtime publisher-owner (1906-41) of the New Orleans Item, now States & Item, the South's oldest evening daily newspaper, who lambasted the Louisiana tyranny of Huey Long, supported Al Smith for President in 1924, later (1956) became a strict states'-righter; of a heart attack; in Gaylord...
Ford Startime (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). The first of a highly touted series of specials, The Wonderful World of Entertainment weighs in with Rosalind Russell, Maurice Chevalier, Polly Bergen, Eddy Foy Jr., Jack Paar, Kate Smith and Eddie Hodges...