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...emotional range of this exhibition is as great as that of the media. There is a passion for justice, as represented by the Sacco-Vanzetti series, and passion for life. Children eating ice cream cones, lovers in a dream, musicians absorbed in the playing of their music so that one can almost hear the notes. The artist is sentimental, pained, jubbilent, comic. An unusually fine draughtsman, only upon occasion does Shahn fall into confusion of details or lack of definition as I think happens in Labyrinth which could more neatly be titled "whirlwind...
...artist towards a rediscovery of European art. It is apparent that a number of new influences have been felt by the artist since the days of the stumpy and more photographic realism of Sunday Painter. The influence of European masters like Giotto, he acknowledged as early as the Sacco-Vanzetti series. More recently folk and primitive art, as represented in the Rousseau-like motifs of Summertime or the expressive decoration of Incutus, are apparent, as well as the influence of early European religious art and the grace and poetry of Shahn's figures. In color too, there is a significant...
...artist to appear on TIME in the last few months; Aaron Bohrod did the Governor Knight cover for the May 30 issue. Shahn, who started out as a lithographer, first won success with his series of beautiful but bitter watercolors protesting the 1927 execution of the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. As a young "social realist," he had a reputation for proletarian-protest painting; but a 25-year retrospective showing of his works early this year in Manhattan made clear that time had mellowed his work as well as himself. Today, he is regarded as one of the world...
...this interest in dissent was not confined to politics alone. The Liberal Club's guests included birth-controllers and disciples of Gandhi, as well as anarchists, communists, Socialists, pacifists, friends of Sacco and Vanzetti, and foes of the Versailles Treaty, Hicks writes, "We would listen to anybody who condemned the status quo and proposed to change...
...work in ballistics and as the founder (in 1929) of the nation's first school of scientific crime detection at Northwestern University; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Colonel Goddard's ballistics techniques were widely disputed in 1927 when he presented evidence at the Sacco-Vanzetti trial that a bullet from Nicola Sacco's gun had killed South Braintree Payroll Guard Alessandro Berardelli...