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Last year TIME ran 162 four-color editorial pages. An additional 52 four-color pages were devoted to TIME'S covers, which were painted by such noted artists as Pietro Annigoni, Boris Artzybasheff, Aaron Bohrod, Bernard Buffet, Boris Chaliapin, James Chapin, Peter Hurd, John Koch, Henry Koerner, Bernard Safran, Ben Shahn, Rufino Tamayo, Robert Vickrey and Andrew Wyeth...
...assorted objects against a cool sea painted on this week's cover by Artist Aaron Bohrod are familiar symbols of the oceanographer's trade. The brownish-pink PGR (Precision Graphic Record), from which the portrait emerges, is used to make a portrait of the ocean floor. The record that served as a model was actually made on July 15, 1958 and shows part of the profile of the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean some 70 miles northeast of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Behind the graph paper is a yellow Nansen Bottle, used by oceanographers to take water samples...
...have more of Bohrod-a worthy addition to your string of fine cover artists...
...black. That week, because the background (an inky sky for a space design) was black, the letters were printed in white. Since then the logotype has been printed at times in red, blue or yellow. This week's four-color TIME was conceived by Cover Artist Aaron Bohrod, who made the logotype an integral part of the cover painting, and hung from it some of the symbols that he often uses to give added dimension to his work.* Bohrod's bright, tuneful "Music Man" conveys the spirit of Broadway's biggest hit, which is sending audiences away...
...technique Bohrod used in a recent self-portrait (see cut), which he painted for Detroit Collector Lawrence A. Fleischman (TIME, Sept. 10, 1956). The miniature of Vermeer's classic painter represents the artist, while the other symbols range through the eye (a glass one borrowed from a doctor), the heart (a piece of an old valentine), the hand (drawn like a 19th century steel engraving) and the mind (depicted by the half walnut, which looks, says Bohrod, like a brain case...