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...AMERICAN IMAGE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). How painters have seen the U.S. from colonial days to the present is recorded in 150 works from the recent Whitney Museum retrospective "Art of the United States-1670-1966." The show also includes previously filmed interviews with such contemporary artists as Andrew Wyeth, Edward Hopper, Jack Levine, Robert Rauschenberg and the late Stuart Davis...
Crowds of New Yorkers surging past the Whitney Museum's Andrew Wyeth show (TIME, Feb. 24), which has already drawn 170,000 visitors, found themselves in for a delightful surprise when they reached the topmost gallery. There an almost cathedral hush was induced by a full-scale retrospective display of the work of Sculptor Louise Nevelson. Awed spectators moved from darkened room to darkened room, observing Nevelson's monumental spotlighted pillars and walls built of orange crates, dowels, spindles and other bits of wooden bric-a-brac but sprayed either all black, all white or all gold. America...
What is it about the somber landscapes and meticulously rendered portraits of Andrew Wyeth that makes them so phenomenally popular? The poetic magic of their realism, which not only equals but surpasses the photographic image, some feel. "It is Wyeth's feeling of loneliness that makes people respond-that feeling that exists in every human being at some time in his life," suggested one curator as Wyeth's 223-picture retrospective exhibition arrived at Manhattan's Whitney Museum last week...
Whatever the reason, loneliness is not exactly the sensation that the viewer is likely to experience at the thronged Wyeth show. In Philadelphia, where it opened last October, it drew 173,148 visitors in eight weeks, septupling the Academy's previous record. In Baltimore, where the show closed last month after a seven-week run, 85,430 visitors came to see it; thousands of others turned away only when they saw the lines outside. With seven weeks to go at the Whitney, and six at Chicago's Art Institute, Wyeth seems a cinch to beat the U.S. attendance...
They had met before, but first got to know each other at close range in late 1964, when Peter Hurd and his wife Henriette, sister of Artist Andrew Wyeth, were jointly commissioned to execute Lyndon Johnson's portrait as the Man of the Year for TIME'S Jan. 1, 1965 cover. During a two-hour session, the President talked brilliantly, flitting from subject to subject, while the Kurds, fascinated, tried to concentrate on sketching him. Later Johnson took the Hurds through the White House's private quarters, proudly pointed out a Hurd landscape hung on the wall...