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...after her death at age 98, 438,000 people visited her retrospective at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. (By comparison, Andrew Wyeth--perhaps postwar America's most cherished artist--drew 558,000 visitors to his retrospective at the National Gallery.) That same year O'Keeffe's Black Hollyhock with Blue Larkspur, 1929, was sold at auction for the artist's record of $1.98 million. In the decade since, her paintings have seen the curve of descent and rise that the art market, in general, has known. "Now O'Keeffe's values are picking up," says Andrew Schoelkopf...
Concern for other colleges' negative responses also contributed to Mt. Hollyhock's decision to stop its merit awards, Rabbino said...
There is no acting in amateur variety shows, only showing off. But some people deserve to be shown off. Notable in this production for one reason or another were a twitchy witch named Tarantula (Betsy Gesmer) who moved better than she talked, a sweet young thing named Hollyhock played by Polly Gambrill, a Squire (Susan Levin) who thought she was Marryin' Sam, a Bard (Sue Harmon) who could sing, and a rock singer (and composer), Elaine Woo, who moved better than she sang...
This season the industry's ugly duckling is getting the full beauty treatment by manufacturers intent on covering the whole market. The thermal now comes in wool, rayon, Dacron, Creslan and Acrilan, as well as the popular cotton, and in shades like curry, persimmon, melon, hollyhock, sand and avocado. It may be bound in velvet or nylon suede, patterned in flowers and leaves, checks and tweeds, stripes and plaids...
Waxworks of Tomorrow. In Racine Wis., S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. (Johnson's Wax) began building a radically new research building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, who also designed the com pany's administrative building. The air conditioned structure, which resembles a hollyhock in a glass case (see cut), will be 40 feet square, have 15 floors. Alternate floors will be circular, and all floors will be hung in cantilever fashion from a central reinforced-concrete stem which contains the elevators...