Word: withe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Phoenix (pop. 370,000) has long smarted under the reproach that it was the largest U.S. city without an art museum of its own. "If you lived in Phoenix and you wanted to go to an art museum with a broad coverage of art," Actor-Collector Vincent Price once pointed...
A GREAT part of modern life is lived by artificial light, and yet no major painter has devoted himself to this glittering and multi-hued area until now. This week Manhattan's Babcock Galleries put on show the work of Chicago's Richard Florsheim, the first artist to...
Happily married, and with an art teaching job to make ends meet, Florsheim still felt and painted misery. His black works found few buyers; he did not mind. "You wouldn't expect someone two years out of college to be made president of General Motors, because you know he...
Viewers now snap up everything he offers. The peculiar luminosity of his technique, which involves mixing the colors with wax and applying them cold with a palette knife, contributes to Florsheim's recent rise. So does his increasing ability to suggest deep spaces and complex forms without defining them...
Some of the modern architect's best customers are the U.S.'s expanding schools and colleges. But one of his most difficult problems is how to blend modern architecture with the traditional style enshrined in many an ivy-covered wall. Last week Eero Saarinen, probably the most versatile...