Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Painted on a 15-by-20-inch panel, the picture was almost surely the work of the great 15th Century Flemish master, Jean Clouet the Elder. Last week it had been identified by no less an authority than Maurice Goldblatt, director of the Notre Dame University art galleries, who first rescued Clouet from obscurity (his paintings were long known only as the work of "the Master of Moulins"), has since ascribed 20 other paintings to him. Chicago Lawyer Bailey Stanton, who picked up the picture on Goldblatt's advice, might well turn a $100,000 profit on his purchase...
...long established world leader, French art, is now meeting face to face with its postwar challenger, the art of America." So said the catalogue foreword to an exhibition of 50 French and 50 American paintings that opened in a Manhattan gallery last week. Culled from some 10,000 entries, the pictures on display were all related in one way or another to Christmas; they had been painted for a $28,000 contest sponsored by the U.S. manufacturer of "Hallmark" cards (TIME, July 4), and many of them would show up on Christmas-card counters eventually...
Little if anything, reports ARCHITECTURAL FORUM in its current issue, out last week. Church architecture is in a rut, and has been for a generation. "Almost without exception," says the FORUM, "the houses of worship erected in this, country since 1920 could more appropriately have been built in England about the time of Crecy and Agincourt or in colonial America in the reign of George III." And few of the new churches will represent any advance. Among the reasons: traditionalism among laity and clergy (a preference for watered-down Gothic and imitation Colonial), and the failure of architects to offer...
Britain's Royal Academy had a new president. At 71, red-faced Sir Alfred Munnings, a rip-snorting conservative and painter of fine horseflesh, had resigned. Into his strait-laced boots last week stepped a 70-year-old Irish portraitist named Sir Gerald Kelly. As befitted a president of the huffy, stuffy R. A., Sir Gerald was on the conservative side too, but he expressed his views more gently than Sir Alfred had. To Sir Alfred, modern art was "damned nonsense" (TIME, May 9). Sir Gerald's judgment: "Some good, some bad and some indifferent, and some . . . danged...
...fortnight, U.S. Methodists have been studying the state of the world and the dangers it holds for religion. Behind closed doors in a Manhattan hotel, 36 bishops of the Methodist Church spent three days trying to analyze the strengths and weaknesses, the failures and successes of Communism. Last week, at Buck Hill Falls, Pa., Methodists assembled for the tenth annual meeting of their Board of Missions and Church Extension. Some of what they heard was cheering: Chinese Communists were treating missionaries better than had been expected and the church in the U.S. was growing fast enough...