Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agency is scheduled to build the three underpasses along Memorial Drive at River St., Western Ave. and Bolyston...
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...hills. He may dismount, whip out a tiny watercolor set and sketch a bit of his domain. These glimpses are pulled together in his studio, where Hurd toils in the meticulous technique of egg tempera. The results, recently on view at Fort Worth's Amon Carter Museum of Western Art and opening last week in San Francisco's California Palace of the Legion of Honor, is an exhibition of 98 paintings that documents nearly 35 years of the artist's minute observations of the world he knows best (see color...
...Western in garb and still gaunt enough to wear his West Point trousers, Hurd loathes the cliches of Hollywood westerns. He is no complacent optimist, recalling the Wyethian admonition that life ends before man can exhaust it. "A painting should be a prolonged and haunting echo of human existence," he says. "I'm concerned about man the de-spoiler." Hurd would like future viewers to say of his patient, sensitive work, "Here is what the Southwest looked like in the 20th century." Like George Catlin's early sketches of the vanishing Indians or Thomas Moran's pioneer...
Died. William Buckingham, 62, research engineer for Western Union Telegraph Co., who in 1961 developed the U.S. Nuclear Bomb Warning System, which is installed in 99 target areas and will, through supersensitive photoelectric devices, instantly pick up the first heat and light waves from a nuclear explosion, thus alerting military commanders moments before it and all other communication systems are knocked out; of cancer; in Southampton...