Word: waxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chairman Herbert Johnson and the Johnson Wax Co. are to be congratulated for the excellent collection of paintings they have assembled and for their plans to use it as an international ambassador of goodwill. But in fairness to American artists across the U.S., it should be pointed out this is much more a collection of East Coast, rather than American, paintings...
...must conclude that this is just another example of New York's "America ends at the Hudson River" attitude, to which the John son Wax people have unwittingly become subscribers. I fervently hope that when, within the next 20 years, the West Coast assumes a position of cultural eminence equal to that of New York, it will not fall victim to the same kind of provincialism and local patriotism...
With increasing enthusiasm, U.S. businesses have become the Medicis of modern art, but never have U.S. artists received such an imaginative boost from business as they did last week. S. C. Johnson and Son (wax products) announced that it had spent about $750,000 to buy one recent painting each by a representative selection of the nation's top artists. It was the largest single industrial investment in art to date, bigger even than the collection at New York's Chase Manhattan Bank. More important than the size of the investment was the quality it had bought. When...
...first breezes of the big windfall began to stir nine months ago, when Chairman Herbert Johnson of the famous wax company invited Manhattan Art Dealer Lee Nordness to lunch in Racine. The company had earlier shown its taste in the arts by building a spectacular Frank Lloyd Wright building that is now a Wisconsin landmark. Now Johnson wanted to find out what the firm could do for U.S. painting. Nordness replied: Buy major paintings from top living U.S. artists and exhibit them as widely as possible...
...Wax Boom, by George Mandel. This war story makes a point that others fudge: a soldier in combat can often be close to insanity...