Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deck, part of a collection of 175-odd packs buried in the bowels of Houghton Library, was donated to the university in 1925 by James E. Whitney '89, whose gift was combined with a similar one presented by Albert Thorndike...
Never before had Manhattan's Whitney Museum held a retrospective show of a living painter. To break its precedent, the museum chose a Japanese-American named Yasuo Kuniyoshi, who ranks among the top dozen U.S. artists. For the painter, the exhibition was a test as well as a tribute. Would his life work, spread out on the walls, seem worth the effort it represented? "I had a butterfly in my stomach," Kuniyoshi confessed last week, "just thinking about...
...looks rather like a prematurely aged Japanese schoolboy. He wears horn-rimmed glasses and a porkpie hat, smokes a pipe, and says he has "no time" for golf any more. He is too busy working, nine hours a day, on the sorts of pictures that fill most of his Whitney show: ragged, melancholy still lifes, Western landscapes and dusky figure paintings. Each painting begins with a detailed charcoal drawing from the model, which he modifies from month to month as he sees fit. "I play with my paintings," he says, "and I sometimes have a dozen of them going...
Ruin on the Table. His still lifes at the Whitney might each have been assembled from a ruin and tied together with string -pipes, masks, torn letters, weather vanes and carnival prizes teetering on Victorian tables. Kuniyoshi's figure paintings all show the same girl (who resembles none of his models) with black bangs, pinched features, a slack, heavy body and long, almost painfully sensitive hands. She sits motionless and exhausted, her narrow dark eyes smudged with dismay, or wanders across desolate landscapes...
Born. To William Samuel Paley, 46, well-tailored board chairman and principal stockholder of the Columbia Broadcasting System, and Barbara Gushing Mortimer Paley, 31, perennially best-dressed daughter of the late, great brain surgeon Harvey Gushing, sister of Betsey Gushing Roosevelt Whitney and Mary Gushing Astor: their first child, his third,* her third, a son; in Manhattan. Name: William Gushing. Weight...