Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Streamlined it isn't. "It looks," observed the London Daily Sketch, "like a motorized greenhouse without the tomatoes." But never mind. The Cubicar, an almost perfectly cubic car manufactured by Britain's Universal Power Drives Ltd., could well become the commuter car of the future. In the age of the traffic jam, when both road space and parking space are at a premium, the 6-ft.-4-in.-long Cubicar is a fascinating concept. With a top speed of 55 m.p.h., it gets about 24 miles to the gallon. It can seat five adults in comfort...
...adjacent galleries (XIV and XV), a display of Fogg graphics and paintings by contemporaries of Degas is available for comparison and teaching purposes. (In particular, note two Degas paintings: an oil sketch, "Cotton Merchants," and a finished painting, "Mme. Oliver Vilette," which bear out the Degas-Matisse relationship...
Next day the car was abandoned in Atlanta, 382 miles away. Gait had managed the long drive unhindered, and disappeared after taking a taxi ride; the driver later recognized him from an FBI sketch. From this point on, Eric Starve Gait ceased to exist...
...usually symmetrical, fraught with enigmatic suggestions of plant and animal shapes, the rhythm of waves and the exuberance of flame. To many, his work suggests a latter-day Georgia O'Keeffe. Like her, he is attracted to "organic form, relating to living things in general." He will occasionally sketch leaves, is fascinated by color photographs of fish and Oriental paintings of insects. But picking up a wineglass in his studio, he says, "This doesn't interest me as a form. It's marked by history, geography, society. I'm interested in the universal, not objects...
...inspired by an upstairs-window glimpse he had of her, then aged 55, picking berries in a field outside. But to render it was not easy. For months he painted only the landscape and Christina's own house in the background, finally asked her if he might sketch her, drew her arms and hands. "I was so shy about posing her, I got my wife Betsy to pose for the figure," Wyeth confessed. The painting, finished in 1948, was sold to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art for $2,200, rapidly became the museum's most popular...