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...story of Art for War's sake-represented since Pearl Harbor by Thomas Hart Benton's angry anti-Nazi allegories (TIME, April 6), by Government poster campaigns, by art classes in the Army-is not complete without the case of big, 50-year-old John Carroll...
Long a foe of the Curry-Benton-Wood school of Midwest realism, barrel-chested Painter Carroll declares: "It gives us a view of American life through a knothole in a backhouse door." Like the late great Pierre Auguste Renoir, whom six wars failed to swerve from his preoccupation with female breasts and buttocks, John Carroll prefers women to barns, feels that good art is seldom inspired by current events or political ideas. A painter's job, he believes, is to idealize his subjects. "If I wanted to paint a picnic scene," he says, "instead of showing a picnic site...
...Barret, R. L. '46, Leverett C-21 KIR 2159 Bayliss, W. H. '46, Adams D-13 KIR 7132 Beale, James MacA. '45, Eliot K-51 ELI 1451 Beebe, S. B. R. '43, Adams C-42 ELI 2360 Bemis, W. C. '46, Eliot K-33 ELI 1032 Benton, D. M. D. '44, Leverett A-24 KIR 2096 Bennett, H. C., Jr, '42, 8-10 Nutting Rd., TRO 2492 Benyas, E. C. '44, Dunster I-11 KIR 5956 Beren, S. K. '44, Eliot K-52 KIR 1946 Bigelow, E. L., Jr. '46, Eliot C-21 TRO 6682 Bigelow, W., Jr. '45, Adams...
...seen the article in TIME, June 15 [about Thomas Benton's musical get-togethers]. . . . TIME couldn't have handled our music any better. The only sour comment came from my son T.P. who said, "What the hell do they mean by amateur. Didn't I get $10 an hour for playing...
THOMAS H. BENTON Chilmark, Mass...