Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Floating Camera. Indeed, weightlessness became a sort of sport. Glenn had with him a small hand camera to take pictures with through his window. "It just seemed perfectly natural, rather than put the camera away, I just put it out in mid-air and let go of it." With the camera suspended as though on an invisible shelf, Glenn went on with other work, then reached back and plucked the camera out of the air. Only once was there any difficulty. Preparing to change film, Glenn let the roll slip out of his fingers. He grabbed for it, but "instead...
...painter of The Window Box (and 31 others in the exhibit) is John Chumley, 33, who lives in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley and never had a New York show before. He grew up around Knoxville, Tenn., where he had one major interest-football-and one minor one-drawing...
...paints barns and farmhouses, his small children (two boys, two girls), even a pair of empty boots crumpled on a chair. In one scene a young man stands silhouetted against a Gothic-American bay window in the empty parlor of an abandoned house. It would have been merely stagy were it not for its brooding strength; and for all their beauty. Chumley's houses and barns would be flat were it not for his lyric brush and the moods it evokes. A painting of three children's swings, hanging empty from a leafless tree, is filled with yesterday...
...bent farmer, seen through the cavern of a big barn, seems the loneliest man on earth. And the open window of an abandoned house fills one canvas with mystery, like a mouth that has much to tell but cannot speak...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is as enjoyable as its title is long. Rising from window washer to chairman of the board, Robert Morse is a comic marvel of apple-cheeked guile and flaming self-adoration...