Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today Thomas Benton's fame rests chiefly on three murals. One is in the Library of Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art. Another is in the New School for Social Research. The third and best known, a huge panorama painted for the Indiana building at the Century of Progress Fair, is now stored in an Indianapolis warehouse because the State lacks a suitable place to exhibit it. All three have a nervous electric quality which is peculiarly Benton's and which his pupils often try but fail to imitate. Painted from recognizable observations, all three portray such typical Americana...
...tousle-headed boy (he is now almost bald) he went to Lawrenceville, later to Yale. In spite of his very proper education, Artist Marsh thinks "well bred people are no fun to paint," haunts Manhattan subways, public beaches, waterfronts, burlesque theatres for his subjects. The Metropolitan and Whitney Museums thought enough of his work to purchase examples...
John Dorman '36, of Beirut, Syria, was last night elected to captain the 1935 soccer team, while Whitney G. Case '36, of Buffalo, N. Y., will become manager and William Lawrence '37, of Providence, R. I., assistant manager for next year...
...comfortable Manhattan studio of Levon West last week assembled Mr. & Mrs. Sherman Reese Hoyt, Dr. & Mrs. Byron Stookey, Mr. Howard E. Coffin, Mrs. Jacob Gould Schurman, Mrs. Richard C. Bondy, Dr. & Mrs. Philip Childs Potter, Mrs. Eli Whitney Debevoise, and a French poodle named Nunsoe Duc de la Terrace of Blakeen...
From the opening line, "You will kill your father and marry your mother" which was spoken in dull, hollow tones by Richard C. Sullivan '35, from behind the hideous mask of the Narrator, to the final peal of thunder, supplied by the machinations of Whitney Cook, Jr. '36, the Dramatic Club's rendering of Jean Cocteau's "La Machine Infernale" (in translation) at the Repertory Theatre is a fine bit of technique and dramatization...