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...walls of one of the main galleries of the Brooklyn Museum were all but concealed by Walkowitz in oil, watercolors, pen & ink, photography, stone and clay. There was Walkowitz in practically every artistic style known to history, Walkowitz by such top-flight U.S. artists ,and sculptors as Wayman Adams, Alexander Brook, Guy Pene Du Bois, Gifford Beal, Ernest Fiene, William Gropper, Joe Jones...
Today, the flute has a few master exponents. Among those who do not belong to the Flute Club are Wayman Carver, a brilliant hot flutist who has played with some of the best Negro jazz bands, and Alberto Socarras, also a spirited syncopator, whose rumba band was last week at Broadway's Café Zanzibar. The finest legitimate flutist in the U.S. is William Kincaid, a courtly, silver-haired, Honolulu-raised native of Minneapolis, whose abilities ornament the Philadelphia Orchestra. Like all great flutists, Kincaid has a chest like a bellows. He developed it while a child, swimming...
...savory, romantic portrait of the cello virtuoso Gregor Piatigorsky won first prize last week at Pittsburgh's annual Carnegie Institute Exhibition, wartime successor to the famed Carnegie International show. The $1,000 prize winner is by 60-year-old, Indiana-born Wayman Adams, since 1926 a member of the archconservative National Academy, who first showed his Piatigorsky last year at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. In the past, Carnegie judges have sometimes recognized painting of decided originality, such as Peter Blume's South of Scranton. This year's safe & sane first choice prompted one observer to wisecrack...
...Syracuse, N. Y. police discovered that Wayman G. Woody invited his friends to dinner, left his wife to entertain them, stole out to loot their homes...
...portrait painting would be his vocation. The next step, he felt, would be to attach himself to an artist whose work he admired, whose critical judgment he trusted, and who was not connected with an art school. He became a tutor and general handy-man in the household of Wayman Adams and worked with him for two years...