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Measuring these skills has been largely the work of two scientists-Ophthalmologist Hedwig Stieglitz Kuhn* of Hammond, Ind., and Dr. Joseph Tiffin, Purdue psychologist. For 20 years Dr. Kuhn has studied all sorts of eyes used and misused in the vast Calumet industrial region south of Chicago. Five years ago Dr. Tiffin began to correlate visual skills and job analysis. This week, as a result of their work, the optical firm of Bausch & Lomb announced that it was offering a new visual service to industry, using a new instrument, the Ortho-Rater...
...Keeffe decided she was "a very stupid fool" not to paint just as she wished, sent a roll of sketches to a friend in Manhattan on the "express condition that they were not to be shown to anyone." The friend promptly showed them to Dealer Alfred Stieglitz (TIME, Jan. 11). He gave an exhibition of O'Keeffe in his "291" gallery, persuaded her to devote all her time to painting, married her eight years later. Her first sale brought $400. In 1928 she got $25,000 for five paintings of lilies. She once sold a single picture...
...Stieglitz had gathered round him a small group of outstanding photographers including Clarence H. White, Gertrude Kasebier and Edward Steichen. They had a gallery in Steichen's home at 291 Fifth Avenue which became famous...
...Says Stieglitz: "It was in those Photo-Secession rooms that the ice was broken for modern art in America." This is no idle boast. Between 1908-16, 291 introduced for the first time to the U.S. the works of Rodin (drawings), Matisse, Toulouse-Lautrec, Cezanne, Rousseau, Georgia O'Keeffe (whom Stieglitz married...
...Stieglitz opened another gallery, "An American Place," on Madison Avenue. Here for the first time photographs were hung side by side with paintings. Says Stieglitz: "Only innocence can breed a place like An American Place." Stieglitz is still convinced that he is innocent, is also convinced that he has a sense of humor. "Otherwise," says he, "I would have been dead long ago." Artist Benton does not agree. Says he: "Stieglitz has a mania for self-aggrandizement and his mouth is never shut. ... He never finds himself funny...