Word: ys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Convinced that Yalemen have won their Ys in art col lecting as well as most other walks of life, Book Publisher Thomas R. Coward ('19), president of Coward-McCann, Inc., set out to prove his point with an alumni loan show at the 124-year-old Yale University Art Gallery. The result, on view this week in New Haven, is a choice selection of 250 oils, watercolors and drawings from the private collections of Yale alumni, including such well-heeled art fanciers as New York Governor W. Averell Harriman ('13), U.S. Steel Corp.'s for mer Board...
Indications are that, as the Negro shares the white man's privileges and opportunities, he also shares his headaches. Sa,ys a Negro newspaperman: "When the Negro had less freedom, he could blame the whites for whatever went wrong with him. Now it's harder for him to blame the whites for his failures." Says Negro Novelist Ralph (Invisible Man) Ellison: "After a man makes $10,000 or $20,000 a year, the magic fades. He is just another man with his problems." Most Negroes still wish they had that kind of problem, but many will agree with Ellison that...
...like most modern art, it draws heavily and unashamedly on arts of the distant past. Smith's sculptures can look like junk-shop equivalents of savage fetishes, bird cages twisted out of shape, elaborate cookie-cutters, armatures for conventional statues, and illegible cut-metal messages. His 24 Greek Ys look somewhat like stick-figures. They are reminiscent of the ages when letters were pictorial symbols and not just parts of words. Smith's 24 Ys perform a sprightly dance on the arms of a steel-candelabrum, spell out Smith's conviction that sculpture need mean nothing...