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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...Century of Progress Exhibition under its official title, The Persistence of Memory. All Chicago knew it as "The Wet Watches." (see cut, p. 44). In the foreground were four great watches. One dripped over the edge of a table like so much melting butter. A second, like an old washrag, hung over a dead branch. The third reposed on the back of a small monster with a long delicate nose. The fourth, rigid, was crawling with ants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Frozen Nightmares | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

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