Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...filling nine large galleries at Chicago's Art Institute. The show goes to show that U.S. landscape painting got off to a slow, painful start. Painter Guy was a determined, self-taught man, who began by tracing his first landscapes on a piece of gauze stretched across the window frame of a tent. But potential art buyers of his time were bored by landscapes: they liked only two kinds of art: portraits and historical paintings. Guy died several years before the romantic, nature-worshiping era set in. Then, slowly at first and with literary prodding from Thoreau, William Cullen...
Across snow-covered Boston, at the window of her office in the Statler Building, stood Bette Davidson, 23, secretary. As she looked out over Boston Common and the grey dome of the venerable State House, she said to herself: "This damned war!" Bette, too, had met her man at Harvard. She rushed to San Diego to marry him, but his orders were changed unexpectedly, and he sailed a bachelor. Now, fingering the diamond solitaire on her third finger, Bette said: "We have our house all planned. It's to be sort of brick and stone Tudor, with four bedrooms...
...studio painter, Mount toured the countryside in a horse-drawn contraption of his own invention. It was a studio on wheels, equipped with a glass window, stove, ventilator and skylight. In beard and broadcloth, the magnificently free occupant of this vehicle roamed the lanes of Suffolk County proving to his own satisfaction that a pig was more paintable than a princess...
Answered a Manhattan cafe hostess: "I'd take my most gorgeous negligee from the closet, don it, go to the window and wait for the firemen. . . . I'd risk a few minutes of my life to be seen as I always want to be seen in public, glamorous...
...rushed out last week with an astonishing story. The place was a shambles. The floors were spattered with broken window panes and flakes of paint from the wall. The radiators and all 15 toilets were frozen. Down in the laundry room, the 22 students, blue-skinned, dirty, tattered and hungry, were huddled around a pot-bellied stove. One 13-year-old had a leg broken in two places...