Word: paintings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paint & Paper. And so he did. After months of tramping the streets, he found a ramshackle, three-story building that he thought he could afford to rent. He and his wife scrubbed it from top to bottom, then painted and papered it. Out of their thrifty life savings of $10,000 they equipped classrooms, dining room, kitchen, isolation ward and dormitories. Then they named the school Laradon Hall, after Larry and Donald...
...basement room of a Third Avenue gallery last week hung the second Manhattan exhibition of contemporary Haitian art. Done by houseboys, chauffeurs and voodoo drummers in their spare time, the paintings were as uninhibited as they were crude. Their bright automobile-enamel colors and outlandish but occasionally forceful draftsmanship looked good to many a critic, for they made a pleasant and refreshing contrast with the alfalfa-dry fare ground out by most professional moderns. "These fellows," said one enthusiastic gallerygoer, "paint as a cock crows...
Yale ended as of yesterday morning the suspension of the three undergraduates nabbed by University police in a Wednesday midnight attempt to paint a Y on the Memorial Hall tower...
...Yalies cam to Cambridge in a bilateral deal which bound them to help an unidentified group of Harvard undergraduates paint a crimson H on Harkness tower. In return, the Cantabrigians provided information on time, place, and proper equipment for the Mem Hall attempt...
Like most modern artists, Bacon is more concerned with technique than subject matter; textures trouble him particularly. "One of the problems," he mused last week, "is to paint like Velasquez but with the texture of a hippopotamus skin." That problem alone, as even a fool could plainly see, might require the destruction of another 700 canvases...