Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...known and not-so-well-known contributors. Insurance Millionaire W. Clement Stone, Chicago's-and perhaps the country's-foremost political philanthropist, has said that he gave Nixon more than $500,000 for his preconvention and election campaign. Others who contributed more than generously included John Hay Whitney, Colorado Oilman John M. King, and John Olin of the Illinois chemical family...
...Connecticut-based corporation could use a boost. Its profits in this year's first half were $16 million, down $7 million from last year's first half. The trouble lies with United's Pratt & Whitney engines, which accounted for three-quarters of total sales of $2.4 billion last year. Because of the commercial airlines' existing overcapacity, they cut back on new orders this year. The Defense Department also continues to reduce purchases as the Viet Nam War winds down. Moreover, technical problems until recently held up development of a more powerful engine for Boeing...
Impressionist Ambience. The Whitney show will not add much to Hopper's established reputation. But it does reveal a good deal about Hopper's interests and development, his slow trial-and-error manner of working, his exacting standards for himself and his relationship with the world. The son of a frustrated scholar turned dry-goods merchant, Hopper was born in Nyack, N.Y., in 1882. He read prodigiously in his father's library: English, French and Russian novelists, philosophers from Montaigne to Emerson. He was a loner almost from the start, perhaps because by the age of twelve...
...Show, but it took ten more years to sell and he was over 40 before he sold the second. He rubbed along doing magazine illustrations, and at one time had almost given up serious painting when, in 1915, he began to do etchings. An impressive example, presented at the Whitney, is a scene viewed from above, with a man walking a deserted city street, the shadow of a lamppost striking across his own lonely shadow. All fussy detail is suppressed; there is only stark image and a mood...
Such etchings sold, and thus encouraged, Hopper began to paint oils again and experiment with watercolors. He was also drawing from the nude at the Whitney Studio Club in Manhattan. The works of this period show he was a good draftsman who could depict a naked woman with an earthy sensuousness that Renoir might have approved. In the early '20s on a trip back to the New York School of Art, he became interested in Art Student Josephine Verstille Nivison, a small, vivid, thirtyish woman whose volubility and quick wit were the exact opposite of Hopper's quiet...