Word: woodcuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Observatory Hill. Barbra Streisand, Doris Day and George Burns stuck to traditional toys, trees and reindeer, avoided writer's cramp by having their signatures engraved within. Playwright Edward Albee, who selected a 16th century woodcut, signed his cards by hand, as did New York Herald Tribune Publisher John H. Whitney, Newsman Chet Huntley and Actress Joan Crawford. Hedda Hopper was even more personal about it all, sent cards bearing her own portrait. Mother Jolie Gabor sent photographs of herself and her daughters, included a lengthy message: "Come and have a glass of champagne with me at my fabulous pearl...
...change in format has brought no change in the Advocate's quality; underneath a handsome mustard cover boasting a Durer woodcut lies a competent but uninspiring collage of prose and poetry. This Advocate is neither "bad" nor "good"--it is just flat...
THEMES FROM SHAKESPEARE - Salpeter, 42 East 57th. A palettable painting party for his 400th birthday. Present: Antonio Frasconi's woodcut portrait of the poet; John Sennhauser's collage soliloquy, To Be or Not To Be; Philip Evergood's charcoal-and-wash of Macbeth and the witches; Mel Silverman's Will plastered against a 16th century papier-mache London; 16 other artists. Through April...
...gouges are as calloused as a carpenter's; the eyes that guide them brood with the sad sensitivity of a romantic poet. A chipper, Groucho Marxist mustache contradicts both hands and eyes. They all belong to Printmaker Antonio Frasconi, 44, one of the U.S.'s foremost woodcut artists. In February, more than 80 of his whorled and scratch-lined works (see opposite page) will begin a two-year long tour of U.S. museums. Sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution, the show demonstrates Frasconi at his versatile best, running from bright, bird-wreathed seascapes to dark commentary on Franco...
...Over the years after that, his clean-lined, brightly colored prints of California lettuce pickers and Fulton Market fish packers, plus his portraits of such literary figures as Bertolt Brecht and Sean O'Casey, won him a reputation as a wizard of the woodcut...