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...floods in Avignon. Then there's some artistic fantasy about a de-petrified statue of Pan romping about the woods with a charming Cinderella. We liked that. But the day is saved by that trustworthy little mammal, Mickey Mouse. A bandmaster this time, with the help of a tornado he sweeps the audience off its feet. Mickey puts one in a good mood, and the Fine Arts is promising better things...
Such a picture is John Steuart Curry's famed Tornado (TIME, Dec. 24 et ante). Showing a frightened Kansas family with children and farm pets rushing for a cyclone cellar, it won the $1,000 second prize at the Pittsburgh International Exhibition of 1933, was featured at the Chicago Century of Progress, has been widely reproduced. Last week Artist Curry's agents, the Ferargil Galleries, sold it to the Hackley Art Gallery of Muskegon, Mich...
...feet of timber a year from Michigan woods, he dearly loved Muskegon, also gave the town a public library, an endowment fund, a manual training school, a hospital, a public park dotted with statuary. The Hackley Gallery has only recently begun to develop. Besides the Curry Tornado, it owns a Whistler, a Hogarth, a Blakelock, many good prints...
...bald, he now weighs 187 pounds, lives quietly in Westport, Conn. He is so sensitive about his art that he frequently decides to give it up. But Curry is generally considered the greatest painter of Kansas and of the circus in the U. S. His two most famed works Tornado (see reproduction) and Baptism in Kansas won him important critical accolades in Chicago and Manhattan but only served to irritate his fellow Kansans who felt that such subjects were best left untouched. In 1932 John Ringling gave him permission to follow the "Greatest Show on Earth." The result...
While Colonel Charles R. (Break-it-up) Apted '06, paternal guardian of Harvard Freshmen, wined, dined, and danced last night at his palatial mansion on Sumner Road, the hot flames of rebellion and riot swept through Harvard Yard with the violence of an unleashed tornado...