Word: utica
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Struck by the fact that, as far as he knew, no photograph of the three living U.S. ex-Presidents existed, Utica Press Copy Editor Joseph Ray, of Oneida, N.Y., wrote the New York Herald Tribune that one ought to be made. "Let's get this historic shot taken while there's still time," he said. Noting the letter, Alan Richards, a Princeton, N.J., freelance photographer, dug through his files and came up with just such a rare shot, taken at Princeton University's 200th anniversary celebration in 1947. "Truman was still Ike's boss...
Rhythmic Tranquillity. In Utica, N.Y., where Davies was born 100 years ago, a retrospective collection of his art is now on show. The 98 works at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute include oils, watercolors, two tapestries, and some small bronzes. Some of the oils, like Crescendo (see color), are filled with the slender nudes which Davies used not so much to people his landscapes as to punctuate his rhythmic compositions. And the tranquil quiet of Our River Hudson seems removed by much more than half a century from the birth of the brash modern movement that Davies supported so willingly...
...additional factor for the Faculty to consider, said Watson, is the inclusion this year of an Eastern Hockey Tournament, one week before the NCAA tourney, in Utica...
...Utica's Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute did not have a particularly promising start in life. Though the institute was formally founded in 1919-by two Proctor brothers who had married two Williamses who were the granddaughters of a Munson-it did not actually open until 1935, and for years was nothing more than a couple of Victorian buildings housing the vague beginnings of an art collection. But in 1955, sparked by the late Edward Wales Root, son of Elihu Root, who later willed the institute his collection of 217 topflight 20th century American paintings, the institute's five...
...itself but its art. His simple classical building is essentially a large airy courtyard covered with a coffered plastic skylight and surrounded by a graceful balcony that turns into a second floor. Designed with a careful eye on U.S. art museums' growing tendency to become civic centers, the Utica museum boasts both a theater-in-the-round and a special hideaway for the kids-a room decked out with pint-sized furniture and bright pieces of sculpture to be felt and climbed. And each gallery is equipped with pocket-size radio receivers so that a visitor can hear...