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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From Sumac-Couvert, the name given it by early French settlers because of its dense sumac thickets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Weeklies & The War | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

Flivvers herd fireflies down the sumac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...bread by designing wallpaper, had never even had a one-man show. An unknown painter rarely wins top prize at a major exhibition. Last week slender, blond, excited Alan Brown did. His Still Life, a swirling, subtly colored miscellany of newspaper, bottle, sticks of wood, pitcher, sprig of sumac, autumn grasses and a bird's nest, shared top honors with the Crucifixion, of thin, intellectual Manhattanite Fred Nagler. Both got John Barton Payne medals, and the Payne Fund bought their paintings for the Virginia Museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Payne Paintings | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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