Word: wanes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broad daylight, the fleet steamed through the Shimonoseki Straits and cut into the Japan Sea, quite obviously bound for Korea. By sunset of the first day out, the festivities were on the wane. Rear Admiral James H. Doyle ordered blackout conditions set on all ships. Below decks...
...exhibit as a whole showed once again that realism in the U.S., as in Europe, has been on the wane for the last 50 years. Before the turn of the century, Albert Pinkham Ryder was laughed at for his dreamy, semi-abstract seascapes. Successors such as John Marin made abstraction an important part of U.S. art history, and today it is the language of hundreds of young American painters...