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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Later watercolors, however, are pure reflections of his own creativeness. These paintings, dating from 1946 to the present, repeatedly picture a twisted, angular, skeleton-like creature whom Grosz calls "the Gray Man." Other recurring symbols are an artist's canvas with a hole torn in its center, and a rainbow-colored flag torn from its staff. The series of water-colors, with its fantastic, degraded monsters and burning luminosity of color, is like a ghastly comic strip...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: ON EXHIBIT | 11/22/1949 | See Source »

...airport restaurant back home in Memphis. Before long, his reputation for tasty, packaged plane meals enabled him to branch out to airports in 21 other cities, begin catering to 16 U.S. airlines. In San Antonio this week, he opens his newest airport restaurant, serving such Dobbs delicacies as rainbow trout cooked in almond sauce, and baked potatoes kept hot in metal foil. This year Jimmy Dobbs, 55, expects his airport restaurant gross to exceed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RESTAURANTS: Food on the Fly | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Klce faithfully followed his own advice, painstakingly built his own delicate, rainbow-touched pictures and his light-fingered, witty drawings until his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Uncle's Nemesis | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...Female relatives may belong to the Order of the Eastern Star, which goes its own way. There is also the Order of DeMolay for boys; for girls, the Rainbow Girls and Job's Daughters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: The World of Hiram Abif | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...meet of Gothic arches, the sex of the horses. The same kind of control is needed inside your head, a place also round and not well known (miner-"minor"), and it requires chiefly a clarifying connection with the outside world, e.g., by the arches of the eye, whose iris (rainbow) promises safety as to Noah. The externalised Logos [Word] is a sort of promise that the outside world fits our thoughts. Christ walked on the water and the doves of Noah's ark and of the Holy Spirit before creation brooded over it; the idea is that you control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coping With the Flood | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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