Word: temperas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inducted into the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters, and although his formal schooling during his ailing childhood never went beyond first grade, he holds an honorary doctor of arts degree from Harvard. Comfortably completing the picture of success is the fact that a full-scale Wyeth tempera today brings $8,000 to $12,000, and his watercolors, sometimes dashed off in 20 minutes, bring...
...acclaim (TIME, July 16, 1951) despite the fact that his painstaking realism, his romantic, nostalgic overtones and meticulous brushwork flout nearly every tenet of the paint-for-paint's-sake schools of abstraction and impressionism now in vogue. He paints what he knows best: his latest tempera, titled Chambered Nautilus,* is a portrait of his mother...
...more than three galleries given over to Shahn's art contain a wide variety of works. There are a number of book illustrations, drawings, Christmas cards--a selection of large graphic works including examples of his "commerical" art, as well as the more familiar paintings done in tempera, water color and gauche. Some of the artists best known works will be missed, such as Handball and Red Stairway, but these deficiencies are compensated for by the inclusion of many unusual and out of the way pieces...
...College has acquired a new $660,000 Arts Center from a Boston lawyer named Edward Cohen. Cohen, who studied at Boston College and the University of California, received an honorary degree at Tufts' centennial exercises in 1952. A feature in the Center is a large mural in egg tempera including all of Tufts' dignitaries from its first president, Hosea Ballou II, to Wessell...
...LIFE correspondent during World War II, Hurd has painted on all five continents, but the people and scenes he likes best to portray are the ranch folk, the sun-blazed desert and the bare mountains near his New Mexican ranch (TIME color page, Mar. 3, 1952). His precise tempera paintings of the U.S. Southwest and its people are owned by such leading museums as New York City's Metropolitan, Kansas City's William Rockhill Nelson and the National Gallery in Edinburgh. For Hurd, a classical-music fan, the Ellington assignment was his first brush with the world...