Word: sooted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sketched on a Mexican vacation last year, Chapin's bullfight scene was a far cry from his better-known studies of Chicago's garish, soot-covered landmarks and blistering, blustering street scenes. But its brilliant colors and on-the-spot realism were laid on with the same bright and accurate brush that had long since brought him into the front ranks of Mid-Western artists...
Docile Manhattanites, who put up with soot, noise, water shortages, snarled traffic and the subway rush hour, generally accepted their new ordeal philosophically. Tenants stopped to chat with the strikers, who wanted their work-week reduced from 48 to 40 hours, and $2.75 a week more for it. The landlords chatted with each other. They claimed that they were going broke, that they could not afford any added expenses unless there was an end to rent control. Their stand endeared them to neither the 12,000 strikers nor the tenants...
...Lowe, was asked to look the gift horse in the mouth. With tiny cotton swabs dipped in turpentine and acetone, not much bigger than those used to clean a baby's nose, he patiently and gingerly removed from its 60 square feet of canvas alternating films of candle soot and brown varnish. The job took 18 months...
...University the trouble of destroying it. A fire broke out in the cellar during the night and only the fact that a student doing some nocturnal research called the Fire Department saved the whole building from an unplanned demise. As it was, all the rooms were covered with soot, some of which has been holding out against cleaners for a quarter of a century...
...project, in the '305, that gave Levine his first real chance to paint. He took a studio back in Boston's soot-filmed slums and began working with the tense brush strokes and smoldering colors of the expressionists he most admired: Rouault, Soutine, Kokoschka...