Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...change was more than skin deep. On a magazine which had gained little new blood in 15 years, a massive transfusion was under way. It had been okayed by amiable President Bruce Bliven, 56, longtime New Republic careerman, but the doctor administering it was a newcomer. Editor Michael Whitney Straight, 29-year-old son of the late NR Founder (and Morgan partner) Willard Straight, was sure that the liberal-weekly was going places. Just where it was headed, neither he nor his readers could say for sure...
...learn the new rules thoroughly you had to go to Paris-and many young U.S. artists did. Last week Manhattan's Whitney Museum (now under the wing of the arch-conservative Metropolitan) honored the native sons who had brought the principles of Paris back to Manhattan, and had made them stick. In an exhibition called "Pioneers of Modern Art in America," it showed the 1908-22 works of Karfiol, Weber, Demuth, Sheeler, Marin, Hartley, and-surprisingly enough-Thomas Hart Benton...
...wallowed in every cockeyed ism that came along, and it took me ten years to get all that modernist dirt out of my system. I was merely a roughneck with a talent for fighting, perhaps, but not for painting." His muscle-bound expressionist Three Figures, which the Whitney exhibited without comment, proved his words...
...Whitney Mowry Cook...
...Duane Whitney...